Sentence examples for ceased referring from inspiring English sources

Consequently, emperors ceased referring proposals to the Senate and, not long after the early imperial period, ended the practice of legislating through the Senate.

It had ceased referring to the country we had tried, for better or for worse, to help, and had become shorthand for a monumental domestic crisis of identity.

In 1967, when the two countries began reporting meteorological information separately, Malaysia ceased referring to Horsburgh Lighthouse.

If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State.

In remarks from the bench aimed directly at President Barack Obama, Justice Scalia demanded: "Are the sovereign states at the mercy of the federal executive's refusal to enforce the nation's immigration laws?" He went on: "If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign state".

If Kim Jong-il will not cease referring to himself as a "military first leader," or stressing that America and North Korea "can never share the same sky," we can be certain, without letting yet another deadline elapse, that he is negotiating in bad faith.

President Bush, his economic policymakers and tax relief advocates should cease referring to the excess money Washington is taking from us as budget surpluses.

Life observed that her name had ceased to refer to an actual person and, instead, had become "a synonym for etiquette and manners, more widely used perhaps than even the words themselves".

Writing in Vogue in 1978, Susan Sontag identified Richard Avedon's fashion photography as symptomatic of the recent historical shift whereby "fashion" had ceased to refer to elegant conduct ("general deportment, etiquette, style of speech, diction, accent") and had come instead to mean surface refinement alone.

Darwin scholars have ceased to refer to the de Beer volume; the new standard work is the 1987 volume of transcriptions of these same notebooks edited by Barrett and colleagues (Darwin 1987).

In a speech on Sunday night, Mr. Arafat called for an immediate cease-fire, referring specifically to "the suicide attacks, which we have always condemned".