Sentence examples for he desisted from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Though he desisted when she told him that was not what she wanted, she accuses him of responding: "You want a job, right?".In this section Hunting for votes A black eye in the Buckeye Hints of a deal or a false dawn?

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.

Church officials have responded with warnings of more severe sanctions, with one Paraguayan bishop warning that he is "exposing himself to the punishment of excommunication" unless he desists.

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.

The negative reaction to this in public opinion was on a par with the disclosure late last year that the president's son Jean, a 23-year-old law student, had been put in line for election as president (he eventually desisted) of a major public authority managing La Défense, the business district adjoining Paris.

"I hope he will desist... Let him desist".