Although none suspected that the faithful had desisted from sin, for years priests have reported a decline in the number of Catholics seeking out the sacrament of confession.
He could have desisted from the option of war, but he never took any action to stop it". Last week, in the opening statement for this phase of the trial, Mr Milosevic - who is defending himself - rejected charges that he masterminded a plan to purge non-Serbs from Serb-dominated areas of Croatia and Bosnia.
The main reason why we have desisted from case-mix adjustment, however, is that it is not compatible with the descriptive deterministic nature of our study design.
Theory and previous research suggest that individuals on a CL path should have desisted from problem behavior and be more or less indistinguishable from low group individuals [ 45].
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.
These deeds confirm that the Government of the United States has not desisted from its hostile and meddlesome plans against Cuba, that it attempts to create situations of destabilization to provoke changes in our political order, for which it earmarks millions of dollars every year.
Both have mercifully desisted from the sport of recent biographers known as Sonia-baiting - savaging Sonia Orwell for marrying Orwell's money, and for damaging his reputation, both the opposite of the truth about her.
The European Court said that the UK had to justify any deviation from universal suffrage, but the UK Government has so far desisted from applying the judgment after the House of Commons voted on 10 February 2012 to maintain the country's blanket ban on voting by prisoners.
I have ceased and desisted from my trolling now.
After 13 Bb3, Radjabov had to desist from seizing a pawn with 13... becausea4 Ne4, because 15 Rhe1 Nef6 16 Ne5 Ne5 17 f4 Be6 18 Re5 is powerful for Kasparov.
Whether they can top the Greens and Lib Dems in the mayoral poll very much remains to be seen - they'll first have to desist from mud-wrestling among themselves - but as things stand they are in shape to take seats on the Assembly, as they did in 2004.
