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He was suspended by the league until he agreed to stand for the anthem and was traded after the season to the Sacramento Kings, where his NBA career effectively ended in 1998.

Other sports followed, just as they did in March when the season was suspended four months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Swing states such as Florida and Wisconsin have suspended efforts to send teams to nursing homes to assist with voting.

The status of “suspended” simply means we are waiting for additional information before closing this complaint.

Faulconer and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo are asking the appellate court to suspend that order to prevent the companies from following through on their threats to pull out of California if forced to comply.

One of the clever things the Nazis did in the last days of the Weimar Republic was suspend freedom of the press.

How much can we suspend belief to keep convinced of their innocence?

ASKY did suspend all service to Liberia and to Sierra Leone, which also has reported numerous Ebola cases.

Update: Late this afternoon, ESPN announced that they will suspend Stephen A. Smith for one week from First Take and ESPN Radio.

After failing to secure the nomination, he eventually suspended his campaign—but he did not suspend his political apparatus.

At a critical moment I might find myself compelled to suspend operations until the arrival of drafts from England.

The sections, the tribunals, the clubs were to suspend their sittings, that the public attention might not be distracted.

In hanging it out on a line do not suspend it in festoons, but spread it along the line straight and lengthways.

Truth is a cause; it produces necessarily its effect when its impulse is not interrupted by causes which suspend its effects.

One knock was to suspend work, two to proceed, and three to come out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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