Abide
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But the real insult is the behavior of Democratic leaders, who continue to
abide
by what James K. Boyce of the University of Massachusetts calls “climate-change denial lite.”
More example sentences with word abide
Eight hundred years ago, approximately, the barons of England decided that the Divine Right of Kings was no longer working for them so well, and they forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which recognized that even the king who claimed to have divine rule still had to
abide
by a basic set of rules.
So it meant that if you were a scientist who wanted to work on the human genome, you had to agree to
abide
by these principles.
What matters is that people of different social backgrounds and different walks of life encounter one another, bump up against one another in the ordinary course of life, because this is what teaches us to negotiate and to
abide
our differences.
There are ties of fraternity that bond us together, and if we destroy these bonds by undermining the standards, the security, the manner of behavior, that nations and citizens all around the world expect us to
abide
by.
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