Sentence examples for desist from engaging from inspiring English sources

Ms. Fernbach said the N.L.R.B. would ask a judge to order Cablevision to desist from engaging in any future illegal activities should the communications workers seek another unionization vote in the Bronx.

She wrote that "the vast majority of the terms of the proposed injunction simply require Kingsbridge to cease and desist from engaging in clear violations" of the National Labor Relations Act.

In June 1645 he was sent by the General Court of Massachusetts to the Narragansett people to urge them to desist from engaging in a war with the Mohegans.

For example, in August 2011, the California Department of Corporations issued a formal consent order against Profounder (a crowdfunding site that recently shut down) to "desist and refrain" from engaging in securities transactions without registering as a broker-dealer.

The attorney goes on to demand that we cease and desist in from engaging in these various actions or face legal remedies.

Interventions for children who have committed offences are centred around why boys engage in, or desist from, offending.

The White House could aid this process greatly by telling Mr. Ashcroft to desist from making scurrilous remarks suggesting, without any legitimate basis, that lawmakers engaged in this thoughtful balancing process are somehow making the nation vulnerable to another attack.

"Hearing nothing from the Indians I had sent out the day previous, I put to death four of those remaining, and released the squaws and child, telling them that we were sent there to punish Indians who were engaged in the massacre of emigrants, and instructed them to tell all the Indians that if they did not desist from killing emigrants that I would return there next summer and destroy them".

Therefore I desist from writing.

Southampton City Council should desist from this folly.

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