The document, which reads uncomfortably like a weird 1940s propaganda piece, includes a list of "Early Warning Signs" including workers "speaking negatively about wages and benefits" or "ceasing conversations when leadership approaches".
Reduce the amount of background noise by turning off any TVs and radios, closing any windows, shutting doors to adjoining rooms, and ceasing any conversations while tuning.
On the supposition that the latter makes sense, acquaintance is that relation the subject had to pain before the conversation, the relation that ceased during the conversation, and that began again shortly thereafter.
It might be more fruitful to direct one's attention to it by describing it in some (hopefully) revealing way, as we did in section 2: acquaintance is that relation the subject had to pain before being engrossed in the conversation, the relation that ceased during the conversation, and that began again shortly thereafter.
Conversation ceased, glances were exchanged.
Conversation ceased when music was played.
Mealtime conversation ceased (or was slipped in during commercials), and a disastrous sort of quietude prevailed.
For a minute or two, conversation ceased and a feeding frenzy ensued.
A Latin motto hangs in its lobby: "Let conversation cease, let laughter flee.
Afterward, out in the courtyard, conversation ceased as all seemed lost in their private grief.
He added, "You can be unhappy one week and happy another one, right?" Then three public relations executives approached and the conversation ceased.
