Sentence examples for desist from it from inspiring English sources

"There is a Talmudic line this calls to mind: it is not yours to complete the task, but neither may you desist from it".

For every worrier feels that worrying somehow helps, that if we desist from it we will be punished for our complacency.

In a very old book known as the Wisdom of the Fathers, or Pirkei Avot, Rabbi Tarfon is reported to have said, "You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither may you desist from it". (2 21).

Rabbi Tarfon, living in a period of crisis following the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, had this advice to give to his co-religionists in a time of great uncertainty, "It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either".

The definition implies a general presumption against terrorism, not its sweeping moral condemnation in each and every instance, whatever the circumstances and whatever the consequences of desisting from it.

Well, it looks like the market for social media analytics has gotten a little less crowded, for now at least: the Pinterest analytics startup PinReach — which had originally been called PinClout until a cease & desist from Klout forced it to change its name — has just put itself up for sale on Flippa.

Other than that, as Mr Ozel suggests, it should desist from promising any more than it can deliver.

As Hitler made it clear in his speech on January 30 that Germany will not desist from her colonial demands, it has been taken for granted here that Von Ribbentrop returned to London this week with instructions to bring the colonial question to the attention of the British.

It is one thing to attempt to strangle economically a country that may be trying to get a nuclear weapon, such as Iran, to make it desist from the attempt and another to try to do so with the likely already nuclear North Korea.

But in 2011 managers will do something about it and desist from communicating with staff in this way.

Sarah Palin said in a recent speech that Chairman Bernanke must "cease and desist" from additional quantitative easing because it is not certain to work, and the effects from previous money-printing programs have already increased prices for such things as groceries and oil.