He thinks the national offices should cease granting patents and focus on giving advice and other services to applicants, helping them save time and money.
Two months later, on 19 February, department Director Brian Leahy issued an abrupt decision that left farmers across the state reeling: the state would cease granting some of the exceptions it'd been handing out for more than a decade.
Cease granting of "permanent leave to remain" status.
When the crown ceased to grant arms directly, its powers were delegated to the heralds as commissioners, with authority to issue letters patent.
On Saturday, The Boston Globe reported that foundation president Barbara Picower had sent out an e-mail declaring, "it is with great sadness that I write to inform you that the Picower Foundation has ceased all grant-making, effective immediately, and will close its doors in the coming months".
Solomon executed the brother of the chieftain Antalas, whom he held responsible for the disturbances, and ceased the subsidies granted to Antalas, alienating the powerful and hitherto loyal chieftain.
The sizable donation in which Bloomberg will give $1 for every new dollar Planned Parenthood raises up to $250,000 is in response to the controversy surrounding the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to cease giving grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings.
1964 – With the accession of a Labour government, hereditary peerages cease to be granted outside the Royal Family, with the exception of two grants by Margaret Thatcher and a baronetcy created in 1991 for Sir Dennis Thatcher.
Mr. Cherry's supporters suggest that the publicity, as well as his good record before he went absent without leave, helped persuade the military to cease prosecution and grant him a discharge.
As far as my beliefs are concerned, I have long ceased to take things for granted.
