Sentence examples for desist from being from inspiring English sources
'desist from being' is correct and usable in written English
You can use this construction when you want to tell someone to stop doing or being something. For example: Please desist from being so rude to your older sister.
Now, at 48, he's a life coach who is helping young offenders desist from being involved in street gangs.
Look, I don't want to suggest that a commitment to desist from Barbra Streisand isn't the gold standard.
Professor Philip Booth of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank, bemoans the added complexity introduced to the tax system and calls for the autumn statement to be abolished so that future chancellors desist from such tinkering.That is unlikely to happen.
The police's pleas for players to desist from inflammatory behaviour were also forgotten on an incendiary night in which Luis Nani, Carlos Tevez and Paul Scholes were all booked City are convinced their bid for Johnson can see off Chelsea's interest.
Why can't actors desist from trying to be musicians?
Cease and desist: it's the message from lawyers on both sides of an angry controversy that's subsumed the happy, dancing shark meme born of Katy Perry's Super Bowl XLIX halftime performance.
According to UNODC, "If the primary objective [of detention] is to attempt to ensure that offenders desist from future crime, there is no evidence that imprisonment does that more effectively than community-based alternative punishments.
It's rather as if poets were ordered forthwith to desist from sonnets, or one-act plays were banned in theatre.
A cease and desist has been issued.
For every worrier feels that worrying somehow helps, that if we desist from it we will be punished for our complacency.
"I'm calling on Sinn Fein to desist from such intimidation and I'm asking the chief electoral officer to confirm the secrecy of the ballot".
