Sentence examples for not desist from inspiring English sources
Although some advisers warned that this would be unpopular, he did not desist.
He gave that up when it became clear to him that they would not desist.
When Maxwell persisted, the Soviets, at Mr. Coleman's instigation, told Maxwell that if he did not desist, the Soviet government would prohibit Soviet learned societies and scientists from having any dealings with his company.
The countess, however, was less impressed with the eccentric writer, whom she came to consider a bit of a pest after he asked, repeatedly, for a photograph of her, and did not desist despite her many polite and witty refusals.
"So we have to be very firm and strong about the sanctions and say to Vladimir Putin: 'What you are doing is unacceptable and it will have economic and financial consequences for many years to come if you do not desist with your behaviour'".
Those forces will not desist--in Honduras or in other places where democracy is vulnerable and nefarious interests are strong.
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.
Beware the nuisance to your right, whom nothing's apt to quell, who won't desist without a fight -- the passenger from cell.
But eating out these days has become more like theatre (particularly true in this case, what with Heston roasting pineapples on a clockwork spit), and we wouldn't desist from reviewing a play simply because it was at the Royal Court.
I don't think I got that close to being expelled for my shameless guying of teachers, revelations of their eccentricities and outright malfeasance, but it was made fairly clear that things would go badly for me if I didn't desist.
