Except for pleasure boats and an occasional scull, traffic on it ceased long ago.
As the evening wore on, one ceased to notice.
In 1997, the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution sponsored by France, Portugal, Sweden and Great Britain calling on Israel to cease its settlement activities and come into compliance with the Fourth Geneva Convention.
"At midnight it listed, took on water, ceased operations and they evacuated," he said.
That sounds like a cynical bet on China's ceasing its misbehavior only when the press corps swells to 25,000.
RH Transport announced it was ceasing its services on Thursday evening.
Making good on its threat to cease censorship of search results on its China-based site, Google.cn, Google has begun redirecting users in China to its uncensored Chinese-language site based in Hong Kong, google.com.hk.hk
FairAir, an innovative San Francisco-based company that promised to let customers transfer or re-sell airline tickets bought on its Internet site, ceased operations June 22, just a month after its debut.
You can access it from here: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11666300. It is also listed in our Chinese Database list: http://guides.library.yale.edu/china-databases. Shanghai-based Shen Bao started its first issue on April 30 , 1872and ceased its publication on May 5 , 1949
BAGHDAD — The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia on Friday to extend its cease-fire for six more months, bolstering hopes that a recent trend toward sharply lower Iraqi civilian and American military deaths in Baghdad would continue.
On Monday, by casting the only negative vote on a United Nations security council resolution imposing a deadline of August 31 on Iran to cease its uranium enrichment activities, Qatar underlined its independence and showed that it dared to defy the United States.
