Use "desist" in a sentence

1. But I am responsible for your creation this time, though I ask of you nothing but to desist

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2. I know that by now you understand that when you put a sjambok into a highly disciplined constable’s hand, and order him to attack someone, chances are that he will attack that someone, and not stop until ordered to cease and desist

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3. He did not really bite as I gave him two evil eyes, and a lot of frantic (read roared) commands to desist with this f unpleasantness before I f kill him

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4. It is a sight to see the handler running flat out and yelling over his shoulder “foei los” which is decent Afrikaans for “please desist and please leave the explosives alone and please stop chasing me right now

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5. An answer had come back a few minutes later, telling us that the hardest part of their trials was probably over since the lawyers in Falconi’s disposal - after having obtained a cease & desist order - were forced to retreat for a recess because of the ‘non-government organization’ status of the Normal Bureau

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6. Ño Josefina already put an endpoint to this illegal chain of animal adoptions, so I hope that Mariana desist once and for all this devout spirit that as Saint Francisco disciple makes her collect from the streets to whatever animal is on her way

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7. This maneuver would also move me away from the "grelis", whose sharp teeth would be entangled in the vines that hung from the trees of that small forest and would desist to pursue me

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8. In time, having freshened herself, when she rejoined him, he found it hard to desist from desiring her

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9. As his sense of decency restrained him from daydreaming about her, he tried to desist from thinking about her altogether

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10. Though his enemies did not witness this scourging, Pilate did, and before they had finished this wicked abuse, he directed the scourgers to desist and indicated that Jesus should be brought to him

11. When the captain saw this, knowing what Jesus had already endured, he commanded the soldiers to desist

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12. As in most accidents involving the genitals the unfortunate resists attempts to help; violently if such attempts or attempters don‘t cease and desist! Of course such resistance had to be vocal since the poor soul couldn‘t release her hand holds for a second for fear of embracing her unfeeling lover ever more passionately

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13. Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoraliza-tion

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14. Johnson absconded with the body, altered key evidence (the limo), got Bobby out of the way with his “Cuban connection story”, chose the Warren Commission, with advice from Nixon, swayed the chairman of the WC to determine an Oswald finding while asking him to seek the truth in the same breath, told the Dallas Police to cease and desist on any further investigation, and took us into Vietnam within 2 weeks

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15. Although most of these cases involve cease and desist orders, some states have assessed fines and are contemplating stiffer penalties

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16. They will either cease and desist, or they will cease to exist

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17. General Pot was to try to convince to desist on the

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18. In her case anyway, were she to succumb in her moment of weakness, then she would suffer even more for having failed to desist from it

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19. ‘Perhaps, one should try to desist from it as far as one could earnestly avoid it

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20. When hope tired me, her enchanting persona was blurred in my mind but the beauty of that brief encounter ever remains fresh in my memory; even now, as I ponder over her inexplicable behavior, I wonder whether it was her vanity to desist from an affair with an older man that blinded her attraction; would’ve my disclosure in the midst of our lovemaking made her recoil from my arms? What if she were to know about my age after we were true and thick into an affair, wouldn’t she have still carried on with me? I know that I would never know

21. In all seriousness—well, maybe not all seriousness, but as close to it as she could get under the circumstances—Margaret wiped the smirk off her face with one hand and said, “I will henceforth cease and desist from tampering with Mrs

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22. And do our stealth bombers and missile launchers seek out their killers and rapists and baby-bashers and village-levelers? Do we threaten their despotic despoilers with death and destruction, if they don't cease and desist? Not on your "Guess"-clad bippy, buster! The military might of this mightiest of nations is reserved for only those deemed politically or ethnically/attractively/color-correct! Prove me wrong

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23. One of the spirit’s rules and laws is that it does not care about the exhortation or desist from its error unless it ascertains the might of that who exhorts it and his power to overcome it

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24. In fact man will not desist from his denial whatever he sees of miracles or signs, for the wrong deeds stand as a veil between spirit and facts

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25. He reveals to them that if they do not come back to their senses and desist from their error, destruction and distress will be their share just as what had happened to those nations whom Al’lah quoted as examples

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26. That is why the Almighty Al’lah warned the ones who enthrall the believers then they do not desist or repent from their action, lest they will undergo the distress of Hell and then the torment of conflagration

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27. “EvE, if the web is severed or censored, will your, will our mind decease, devolve, or desist in the digital winter that would ensue?” I asked the EvE not here but somewhere, and therewhere knew she was asking herself

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28. If they do not desist from so saying, those of them that disbelieve shall be sternly punished

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29. All those which our conscious really allow and all those which we would like to be subjected to are all good karmas while those which we detest and find inappropriate and resentful are bad karmas and we should, therefore, desist from performing those in our lifetime

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30. A smile threatened to reveal his gladness, but he counseled it to desist

31. In the meantime rest assured that I will inform Charlie of his impending punishment, which might cause him to desist

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32. The banks may desist from sanctioning advances against FDRs, or other term

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33. minted gold coins sold by banks and desist from granting advances to the silver

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34. " Moses glanced over at Olin with an expression that seemed to make the entreaty that he desist in his comments to the court

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35. desist their violent actions

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36. The Colorado ACLU, in cahoots with the Anti-Defamation League, filed a lawsuit demanding that a charter school in that state desist in all mentioning of Christmas, including ancillary renditions of “Jingle Bells”, on the grounds of the harm and intimidation such jubilation inflicts upon Jewish students

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37. warnings that one should desist, or restrain themselves, as pursuing their intentions violates

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38. You can request a Cease & Desist of all communication from a debt collector if that request is made IN WRITING! If you do this, they can not even call you at home any more

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39. They can only contact you one time after the Cease & Desist and that is to inform you of what they intend to do regarding the matter

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40. I request that you CEASE and DESIST in your efforts to collect on the

41. This is the Creator’s “cease and desist” order to the Vatican and its

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42. I gave of my best, with some quite violent shouting and ranting but had to desist when he punched me forcefully in the mouth

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43. This Cease and Desist order is directed against the long-term deceptions and misdeeds of the

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44. And if you desist, it would be best for you

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45. If the hypocrites, and those with sickness in their hearts, and the rumormongers in the City, do not desist, We will incite you against them; then they will not be your neighbors there except for a short while

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46. He who believes in the divinity Jesus Christ is Christian; he who does not, (whatever his profession), is a mere Desist

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47. accompanying the flock shouted to him to desist; seeing it was no use, they ungirt their slings and began to salute his ears with stones as big as one's fist

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48. He saw that his squires (for so they call those who follow that trade) were about to rifle Sancho Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at once obeyed, so the girdle escaped

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49. Meantime the oars were got out in order to reach the Faroes, which were about thirty miles dead to windward, but after about nine hours' hard work they had to desist, and, putting out a sea-anchor, they took shelter under the canvas boat-cover from the cold wind and torrential rain

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50. me to desist, which I instantly did; and proceeding to untie him, I could

51. “Cease an’ desist, Sirrah,” said Susannah, leaping to her Feet and challenging Whitehead, who now quickly unscrew’d and withdrew the Device, as if he had been using it in Jest

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52. “Cease an’ Desist!” cried Lancelot

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53. They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but in vain! and even her rich dress did not make them desist

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54. An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph

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55. He would not despair: he would not desist

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56. As Tarzan approached he raised his hand aloft for Terkoz to desist, for the female was not his, but belonged to a poor old ape whose fighting days were long over, and who, therefore, could not protect his family

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57. He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself

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58. Then he slept awhile, and began again with renewed strength, so loudly that I must needs make him desist

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59. At last, after much dodging search, he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger's evil eye

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60. Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship

61. "Oh! Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist

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62. She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, ‘How can I forgive His tormentors?’ she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction

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63. He could hear Virginsky checking her; but the old maid pushed him away and would not desist

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64. But the woman would not desist, she kept wailing, shouting, and waving her arms, seeming to pay no attention either to the fire up to which she had been carried by the crowd from the street or to the people about her, or to the misfortune of strangers, or even to the sparks and red-hot embers which were beginning to fall in showers on the crowd standing near

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65. Her eyes were fixed on him, and her tears prevented her speaking, which she several times attempted to do, but was forced to desist

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66. "We cannot desist from violence, because we are on all sides surrounded by violators

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67. The suggestion to governments to desist from violence, and to adjust all differences by arbitration, would be to recommend a suicidal policy, and no government would ever agree to that

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68. And those who occupy a similar position will believe in him and sing his praises, and take counsel together upon the best methods of improving the condition of those very laboring classes they spend their lives in exploiting; and for this purpose they suggest every possible expedient, save that which would effect it,—namely, to desist from robbing the poor of the land necessary for their subsistence

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69. If you are a ruler or an official, make only an attempt to cease polite lying, cease to take part in violences and executions; if you are a priest, desist from deceiving; if a soldier, cease killing; if a land-owner or manufacturer, cease defending your property by roguery and violence; and forthwith you will lose the position which, as you say, is forced upon you and seems to you burdensome

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70. “Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more emphatically

71. Napoleon tells the American Minister, virtually, that we are very good Americans; that, although he will not allow the property he has in his hands to escape him, nor desist from burning and capturing our vessels on every occasion, yet that he is, thus far, satisfied with our co-operation

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72. But what is one sane man against a stampeded multitude of maniacs? For confirmation of my disinterestedness, I point to all those weeks and months during which I waged costly warfare on “The Seven,” who would gladly have given me more than I now have, could I have been bribed to desist

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73. Bleecker, in a speech of about twenty minutes, made an able, solemn, and impressive address to the House, urging them to ponder, and desist from the dangerous course they were pursuing, and forewarned them of the calamitous consequences that would inevitably result

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74. Thus one branch of the Government forcing the nation to desist from doing what three, including itself, had thought best to perform

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75. this House should desist from the dangerous course they are pursuing, 550;

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