Sentence examples for desist from continuing from inspiring English sources

It literally took an act of Congress to get him and his department to desist from continuing one of the great oil patch boondoggles.

Amid increased pressure from sanctions and now facing a voluntary embargo that would curtail their oil exports to a wide spectrum of their important crude oil customers such as the European Union, Japan, and Korea, Iran is coming under massive economic pressure to desist from continuing its not so clandestine program of developing a nuclear arsenal.

Anatoly Shabad, the leading parliamentary member, secured the return of the captured Armenian policemen as the Soviet forces desisted from continuing out the rest of the operation.

The first intimation that all wasn't what it seemed came in September, when the California Corporation Commission issued a cease and desist order prohibiting the company from continuing to sell stock in the corporation.

Eventually the King consented to fill the House of Lords with Whigs; however, without the knowledge of his cabinet, he circulated a letter among Tory peers, encouraging them to desist from further opposition, and warning them of the consequences of continuing.

In a recognition that such extreme barbarism could be self-defeating, Isis chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said in July that Isis would desist from filming the actual moment of execution (though it will continue to show the moments before and after).

The letter continued: "While advertisers routinely use fantasy images to sell products, they must surely desist from using images that condone, legitimise, normalise, or build desirable fantasy around slavery or servitude of any kind, including child slavery or child servitude.

Victor Amadeus, for his part, continued to protest for three years, and only in 1723 decided to recognize the exchange and desist from using the Sicilian royal title and its subsidiary titles (such as King of Cyprus and Jerusalem).

Therefore I desist from writing.

Southampton City Council should desist from this folly.

Why can't actors desist from trying to be musicians?