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How to use desist in a sentence

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Sometimes, I just write to the person involved and ask them nicely to cease and desist.
Thus they may be motivated to continue to sell drugs even as they desist from use because of the deterrent effect of bioassay screening.
Even if one were to desist from reading too deeply between the frames, one conclusion leaps to the eye.
The obvious reason is that the debates became so acrimonious and bitter, that the Generals ordered him to desist.
Would he care to desist his blathering on what is clearly an unfair system, and step outside and settle this mano-a-mano?
The bishop was compelled by pontifical authority to desist from this wicked labor, and Latinity did not recover until the Renaissance.
However, he said he would desist from doing that now that motions to change the policy have been submitted to Congress.
She said the police officer ordered the two bickering women to cease and desist, but the women ignored him.
He refuted claims that the station received a letter or request to desist from playing the calypso.
Unruly patients will begin with an informal warning from a senior manager, but failure to desist will result in a yellow card being issued.
So can you please now cease and desist with your ever-growing trend to try and yuppify the names of dull, everyday things?
He also ordered that they were to desist from causing obstruction to council workers or trespass on council offices.
The dream of achieving such strategic parity is more powerful than any pressure to cease and desist.
He had even confronted him with an ultimatum to cease and desist or find a new job.
So let's all put a stop to this tomfoolery and cease and desist from giving these Ministers pats on the back for their poor behavior.
He has no permission under the law to do so and I would advise him to cease and desist.
I do not think people would desist from lodging an employment appeal case if they did not think the organisation was taking them seriously.
I am currently obtaining signatures on a petition to the Home Secretary, to ask him to desist from imprisoning pensioners.
Builders and developers should desist from destroying lakes and trees to make room for residential layouts.
Perhaps if anyone caught dumping litter had a delivery from the refuse collection wagon instead of a collection, they might desist.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Stephen was even the more provoked because Benjamin cried to him to desist.
The remonstrative shouts of his friends, however, induced him to desist, and he sat down to work in a less perilous position.
Again and again Mr jager had to order the combatants to desist, and shouted to the Frenchmen to throw down their weapons.
They saw the keddah sahib towering above the fighting mob, his spread arms raised as if exhorting them to desist from strife.
She stood on a balcony above, and called upon the people to desist, and hear her.
So I will desist for the present, and resume this to-morrow on the top of a kopje.
Not till every arrangement was made did zappa and his followers desist from their labour.
She upreared on her own knees in an agony of terror, clasping his knees and supplicating him to desist.
In the pancratium it is in our power to desist and not to receive blows.
A madness was upon me and I repeated the folly, the offense, but again ineffectually, and I had the decency to desist.
The reason why I have asked you to desist is that I can see that your conduct is causing the General annoyance.
This time he did not desist until he had broken through the panel.
He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself.
Then in English he had summoned his countrymen also to desist.
His wife, however, Hecuba, begged and entreated him to desist.
If I must talk through a wall of nonsense, I may as well desist.
Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist.
If George did not mimic his uncle to his face, it was only by Dobbin's rebukes and Amelia's terrified entreaties that the little scapegrace was induced to desist.
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