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.
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.
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.
In 1999, Roper, who is sixty-six, underwent a quadruple-bypass operation; though he has promised his family to desist from all the fund-raising that such expeditions require, he recently told me, "I'm hoping to make one more voyage".
The letter says that DeMenthon is in violation of Craigslist's terms of use, and it demands that he confirm in writing that he has "ceased and will forever desist from all access to and use of Craigslist for any reason or purpose whatsoever, directly and through any other person or entity".
I have ceased and desisted from my trolling now.
