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.
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.
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.
"Israel," he said, "will continue its policy of interdicting attempts to strengthen Hezbollah, but will not intercede in the Syrian civil war as long as Assad desists from direct or indirect attacks against Israel".
"Sorry for taking up your time," says the ad, and promptly desists from further pestering.
Again, no one believes her, and authority figures insist that she desists from her investigations.
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).
In contrast, Blumstein et al. (1988) argue that while the decline could be the result of a large proportion of offenders desisting from crime as young adults, this does not mean that those who continue to offend necessarily do so less frequently.
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.
