Sentence examples for desist on from inspiring English sources

More than one hundred scientists have urged the government to desist on the grounds that the policy is misinformed.

I apologize that it's out; and I have asked my lawyer to pursue a cease and desist on the song immediately.

Chief Bradford added that there should be a "cease and desist" on executions in the relevant cases until the retesting is complete.

He granted his students' request to hold a seminar on anti-Semitism (centered on Sartre's book), but the French military commander in Berlin ordered him to desist, on the ground of political sensitivities.

This deal, however, makes it far more likely that Assad will cease and desist on chemical weapons, because the deal makes Russia the de facto guarantor of Syrian compliance.

"We invested in @280north after Apple dropped a cease & desist on them and other investors walked away.

True, the chancellor desisted, on this occasion, from using that misleading, and economically illiterate, claim that we had "maxed out on our credit card" – we, a nation for whose government stock there is no shortage of buyers around the world.

He notes that this is the argument Uber has been using in cases like the recent one over GPS in Boston, where the company was issued with a cease-and-desist on its operation.

An executive editor at a major publishing house agrees: "Our legal department has a lawyer on retainer whose job is to slap a cease-and-desist on any site featuring an illegal copy of any of our books," he admitted.

She complained that the paper had attempted to contact her on four occasions for her comment on the case, despite requests to desist made on her behalf.

IPCom said in a statement on Thursday that it sent 100 retailers cease and desist requests on 6 December, asking them to stop selling HTC's 3G handsets by 20 December.