The phrase "a demand to stop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is requesting or insisting that another person cease an action or behavior.
Example: "The teacher issued a demand to stop the disruptive behavior in the classroom."
Alternatives: "a request to cease" or "an insistence to halt".
Mr Cameron had to back off from a demand to stop child benefit being paid to UK-based workers with children elsewhere in the EU.
"This is not much of a demand, to stop for 10 seconds to find someone who killed someone," the justice continued.
"The uncontroverted evidence at trial was that after receiving a demand to stop posting what plaintiffs believed to be false and defamatory materials on several Web sites, including allegations that Mr. Padrick had committed tax fraud, defendant offered 'PR,'searchch engine management,' and online reputation repair services to Obsidian Finance, for a price of $2,500 per month".
"If I'd received a juridical demand to stop the project, we would never have made it," Lerner recalls.
As The Miami Herald reported on Wednesday, he's refusing a federal demand to stop purging his state's voter rolls.
He was fiercely loyal and so pugnacious that he was once arrested for hitting a photographer who refused his demand to stop taking pictures of the filming of a Koch campaign commercial.
President Obama's demand to stop all settlement building pending a resolution is the right one.
Weaver finds himself in the middle of a political smackdown when the unpopular mayor's popular daughter taps on his car window during a rainstorm asking for a lift, then demands to stop at a fast-food hangout.
But Netanyahu did not offer any alternative solutions other than endless sanctions against Iran until it meets a series of vague demands to "stop aggression against its neighbours", stop "supporting terrorism around the world and stop threatening to annihilate... the only Jewish state".
Last month, a school principal was killed just outside of Kabul, apparently for spurning insurgent demands to stop teaching girls.
