Suspend

//səsˈpɛnd//

"Suspend" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.

O time, suspend your flight!

O time, suspend your flight! and you, happy hours, suspend your race: let us savor the fleeting delights of our fairest days!

Among so many actions committed by dictators, we can mention that: they suspend political activity, they suspend the rights of workers, they forbid strikes, they destroy the Supreme Court of Justice, they shutdown nighttime places of business, they censor the mass media, they burn thousands of books and magazines considered dangerous.

During the movie, I tried to suspend my disbelief, but failed.

I'm going to suspend my judgment until the movie is over.

Norwegian Cruise Line decided to voluntarily suspend cruise voyages.

Algeria should suspend all travel from Europe for the next weeks.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.S. billionaire Bill Gates have joined the chorus of those expressing concern about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend U.S. funding for the World Health Organization.

If you watch Wentworth, you have to suspend belief to enjoy it.

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The meeting was suspended for lunch.

Suspend your indignation against my brother.

The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.

Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.

“Essentially everything Miller says about suspending habeas corpus – which would eliminate the ability of the courts to rule on immigration matters – is wrong,” CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said. […] The Constitution only allows habeas corpus to be suspended when “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

suspending out judgement

to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

to suspend a ball by a thread

The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.

God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club

Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.

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