Sentence examples for desisted from inspiring English sources
The word "desisted" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to stop doing something, especially something that is considered wrong or harmful. Example: After her mother scolded her, Mary desisted from throwing her toys around the room.
Having initially vowed to fly home later this week, Mr Zelaya desisted, after officials in Tegucigalpa said he would be arrested for treason.
Nor has he desisted from targeted killings, some of which coincide eerily with moments when the extremist organisations say they are poised to cease fire.
China's way ensures that those smithereens thousands of bits of debris, large and small will orbit like bullets in space for years (another reason the Americans and Russians desisted).
Moreover, Hamas, the Islamist movement that carried out most of the suicide attacks, has, with the odd exception, desisted for several years.
Israel, maintaining its "ceasefire", desisted from large-scale military action.
They desisted only after the government sent Congress a new bill to grant them political status.
The Farc need constant reassurance because they are very, very mistrustful Michael Shifter Several US officials have suggested privately that diplomatic relations would not be affected if Colombia choses to desist from extraditing demobilized guerrillas.
"So we have to be very firm and strong about the sanctions and say to Vladimir Putin: 'What you are doing is unacceptable and it will have economic and financial consequences for many years to come if you do not desist with your behaviour'".
Houston's city attorney, David Feldman, sent an email to Uber last month formally asking that it "cease and desist" from encouraging the public to write to officials demanding the introduction of the service.
A leader from the Inter-religious Council said that the EU should "respect the sovereign rights of other nations and desist from tying homosexuality to development aid," to deafening applause.
Its reports have gone to the IWC, which has issued resolutions asking Japan to desist, which Japan has ignored.
