The phrase "a request to cease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when formally asking someone to stop a particular action or behavior.
Example: "We have received a complaint regarding your activities, and this letter serves as a request to cease all operations immediately."
Alternatives: "a demand to stop" or "a plea to halt".
Thousands of people in Gaza ventured out from homes and shelters on Saturday to find that whole streets and neighbourhoods had been destroyed in the past week after Israel and Hamas both agreed to a UN request to cease military activity from 8am until 8pm.
If a company is judged to have "wilfully" violated intellectual property in the face of requests to cease, damages can be three times as high.
And despite Soviet requests to cease all resistance activities, the group printed and distributed anti-Nazi literature and helped Jews and dissidents escape until, because of a gross Soviet intelligence blunder, the Gestapo arrested 120 people in 1942 and 1943.
Royal aides were keen to stress that this was not an attack on press freedom, but was a request to the individual to cease and desist harassment of George and his nanny.
Although the trail back to the Napster user ends with the I.S.P., Mr. Hill said, his software will allow artists, their managers or their record labels to get in contact with the I.S.P. with a request to forward a "cease and desist" notice from the artist to the computer that was used to share music files.
There are two criteria for this taking place – age and absence of cervix (congenital or following a hysterectomy) – though women can request to be ceased, usually by asking not be sent invitations [ 5].
According to the New York Times, a request from one U.S. phone company to cease sharing its records with the National Security Agency was rebuffed in March by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — the secret federal tribunal that mostly seems to specialize in saying "yes" to surveillance.
In the majority of such cases, our request for the violator to cease and desist has been all the action required".
Boland has now requested the court's permission to cease representing the con artist.
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