Sentence examples for ceased to exercise from inspiring English sources
And trying to explain how Chardin created his enchanting effects has never ceased to exercise writers on art.
In Castile, after the failed revolt of the townsmen known as comuneros (1520 21), the hidalgos (lower nobility) were the only surviving force in the Cortes, and even they ceased to exercise much real power.
The notion that a woman who marries is, as if by some peculiar biochemical process, transformed into something like an extra organ of her husband, as functional and compliant as a healthy kidney, has ceased to exercise much persuasive power among the general public.
Hamas might soon stop firing rockets, but then will Israel cease to exercise its violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank on a daily basis?
This lists a series of policy areas where European nations "may" legislate, but only when "the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence".
But in saying that, "Where the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence in an area of shared competence, the member states may exercise theirs," it seems to be saying, to Eurosceptic ears, that national governments will only be free to act in these areas when the Union chooses not to.
Philosophy ceased to be an exercise in the grammar of assent and became an adventure in methodological invention and metaphysical discovery.
Ning et al. reported that 23% of previously active women ceased to engage in exercise completely during pregnancy [ 4].
In the 19th century, however, relations with the outside world ceased to be a controlled exercise in curiosity.
