He would stop attempting to make brisk order out of human affairs.
He was a "joiner," a "born leader"; she was not, and stopped attempting to be.
Muller Estrada yelled for them to stop, attempting to break up the fight.
I've long since stopped attempting to be deep or interesting, because there's simply no point to it.
But he never went down, never wobbled, never stopped throwing back, never stopped attempting to block punches, never sounded incoherent in his corner, never asked to stop.
Valery Gontareva, head of the National Bank of Ukraine, said he would stop attempting to prop up the currency, telling reporters in Kiev to "get used to market volatility".
Greece has told President Erdogan to stop attempting to stir up nationalistic fervour by re-writing history ahead of the Turkish elections.
She stumbles and stops, attempting to regain her balance, and continues to walk forward.
Washington should not be isolated from the world, but it should stop attempting to forcibly transform the world.
Lipsius adopted a typically Stoic approach to the passions and "affects" [adfectus], identifying them as false opinions that we "must never stop attempting to conquer" (On Constancy 1.2).
I suggest for the sake of your reputation on-line, YOU GET YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT TOGETHER, and stop attempting to shove your posts into other people's feeds.
