But it continued to insist on its right to resume it, and in August 2005, the month of Mr Ahmadinejad's inauguration, it did so even though the three European governments had offered it economic and civilian-nuclear help in exchange for stopping permanently.
Norwegians are criticized for stopping to help people in need and wearing "cheerful snowsuits".
Mr Hussein does not like to talk about it today, but the Kurdistan Regional Government got a nasty surprise in August when it asked the Turkish government for help in stopping Isis only to be told Ankara planned no immediate assistance.
The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said by telephone on Thursday that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, had asked Mr. Biden for help in stopping the housing project but that he had made no threat about pulling out of the talks.
When we asked him in late 2010 for help in stopping COICA, the predecessor to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills, he founded an organization called Demand Progress, which mobilized over a million online activists and proved to be an invaluable ally in winning that campaign.
So the tank assembly was taken to the Universities maintenance for help in stopping the leaks".
Yet Duterte made a direct appeal to Uncle Sam Tuesday, asking for help in stopping meth traffickers who've turned the island country into a narco-state.
In August, some of the last doctors still working in the city's eastern quarters wrote a letter to President Obama pleading for help in stopping the targeted bombardment of hospitals by forces backing President Bashar Assad.
It was not my original intention to write a piece for blamers, but I was inundated with (and inspired by) emails from readers who self-identified as blamers and asked for help in stopping their behavior.
In the fourth episode of the eighth series, Oleg Darshavin, who had been one of Lucas's interrogators in Russia, approaches him for help in stopping a planned bombing by Sudanese extremists; Lucas takes the case despite Harry's suspicion that he developed Stockholm syndrome during his captivity.
