Sentence examples for he desist from inspiring English sources

When she encountered Barbour after a labor meeting at which he made references to her, she told him that he wasn't running against her and requested that he desist.

He ceased and he desisted.

He desisted for a few minutes before he tried again, and again was crossly rejected.

He desisted when a close chum convinced him that a desire for a reformer's image would be undermined.

Mr Uribe risks looking as autocratic as his neighbour.Several of the president's closest allies may be hoping even more fervently that he desists.

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.

This was contingent on events within the ANC, and for a long period he desisted from expressing himself on the matter, especially in view of the rivalry between Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa.

Ibn Ḥanbal's unflinching spirit was beginning to have its effect upon the Caliph; but the latter's advisers warned that if he desisted from punishing him, he would be accused of having opposed the doctrine of his predecessor al-Maʾmūn, and the victory of Ibn Ḥanbal would have dire consequences on the reign of the caliphs.