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Definition of Suspending

1. suspend [v] - See also: suspend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suspending

Literary usage of Suspending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly (1885)
"323 , SB On suspending constitutional rules on Senate Bill No. ... 197 545 On Willard's motion to adjourn 54* On suspending constitutional rules on Senate ..."

2. The Review of American Colonial Legislation by the King in Council by Elmer Beecher Russell (1915)
"Least effectual were the several instructions which forbade governors to pass laws without the insertion of a suspending clause. ..."

3. The Review of American Colonial Legislation by the King in Council by Elmer Beecher Russell (1915)
"In the latter case the Board stated that it would have been better pleased had the assembly passed the bill with a suspending clause. CO/5-918, p. ..."

4. A Treatise on Civil Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1877)
"The suspending-rods, or chains, should be attached to such points of the main chains ... Transversal road way-bearers are attached to the suspending-chains, ..."

5. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"They wonld have to depend upon the President for the information upon which they were to act; and then, while a bill for the purpose of suspending the ..."

6. The English Constitution in the Reign of King Charles the Second by Andrew Amos (1857)
"(2) Dispensing and suspending Powers. The question as to the Dispensing and ... That the pretended power of suspending laws, and the execution of laws, ..."

7. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"The natural tendency of the Dispensing and suspending Powers to terminate in the assumption of the whole authority of legislation, was visible in the ..."

8. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"suspending. (c) The suspending power was the right claimed by the King to suspend the operation of any Statute or body of Statutes: following the example of ..."

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