Sentence examples for they desisted from inspiring English sources

They desisted only after the government sent Congress a new bill to grant them political status.

In Kandahar, villagers at first wanted to take the bodies of their victims into the city, but elders persuaded them that displaying them to crowds would lead to mass violence, and they desisted.

The Hutchinsons weighed in with inspirational songs but, until Captain Judkins called for the bosun and vowed to put the rioters in irons unless they desisted, the situation looked ugly.

We have to start, as the Americans did, by mapping the invisible forces that strip jobs, value and hope out of communities; make them visible; trace their dependencies and then use direct action to kick them in the corporate goolies until they desist.

But if they desist, fight none except the evil-doers"(2 190-93).

Thus shall the unbelievers be rewarded: but if they desist, God is forgiving and merciful.

Police surround the youths and demand they desist, to which the youths respond, "Why?

Towards the end of the decade however, the "war party" gained the ascendancy, and began to openly goad Philip; in 341 BC for instance, the Athenian general Diopithes ravaged the territory of Philip's ally Cardia, even though Philip demanded that they desist.

They have no binding oaths - in order that they may desist". Where is the apostasy mentioned again?

But such regimes need to believe that they can desist and still be safe.

If the candidates favor military action, as is their prerogative, they should desist from peddling the false notion of a simple "surgical" strike and answer the hard questions.