Sentence examples for ceased to act from inspiring English sources
The Hofgericht ceased to act when the emperor was abroad and was dissolved upon his death.
"Many lawyers have already ceased to act in legal aid cases," they note.
In May 2006 the Court of Cassation upheld Nour's conviction, suggesting to many that the Egyptian judiciary had ceased to act independently of government directives.
"Mr. Adoboli had ceased to act as a professional investment banker and had begun to approach his work as a naked gambler," Ms. Wass said.
With the construction of a flood-control system on the Old River, however, the Red River ceased to act as a tributary of the Mississippi.
On Friday, August 18th, four days after the White House disavowed Icahn to me, he tweeted, "Today, with President Trump's blessing, I ceased to act as special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform".
But sometimes the music or what he was reading would all of a sudden cease to act on him — or, worse, he would fall into despair or irritation, no longer able to see the bright horizon promised to him by music, by reading, by the art of imagination and the excitement of a sensitive heart.
I taste blood, iron-rich, when I read that short poem, and I think at once of Housman's infamous statement, in his 1933 Cambridge lecture "The Name and Nature of Poetry," that "experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act".
It's time before matters drift to irremediable extremes that all sides, at least at the top, cease to act and speak emotionally.
Lehman was in effect ceasing to act as a middleman and was playing the "carry trade" game, where one borrows cheap and invests in lower-rated comparably dated paper with a higher yield.
Although our data show that Muller's ratchet slows through time, Muller's ratchet may not cease to act entirely in p-endosymbionts, and three outcomes have been recorded.
