Abided in example sentence

Few Party officials really wanted to be troubled by the complexities of such calculations anyway, but either abided by them or paid them lip service, for the sake of maintaining patronage and seeking promotion.

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The TAL set a rigorous schedule for the Assembly to complete an initial constitutional draft, and the Assembly essentially abided by those limits.

They believed that so long as everyone abided by the law, it was not necessary for citizens to have a single hierarchy of values.

Both sides have routinely abided by the informal protocol that has evolved over the years.

But, as a country caught between the Islamic Middle Ages and Western modernity, it has always abided extreme contradictions.

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