Sentence examples for which ceased to from inspiring English sources

Later civilizations built underground water reservoirs, many of which ceased to be used following an earthquake in 1956 that destroyed much of the island.

Their chief example is Methodism, which ceased to grow once it settled its fervent circuit-riding clergy, sent them to seminary and de-emphasized sin, hellfire and damnation.

This transformation continued with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which ceased to exist in 1991, and Yugoslavia, which finally disappeared from the map in 2003.

At first the gaffes are fairly trivial; she designates a policy to the department of trade, which ceased to exist nearly 10 years ago.

The most popular request from the public is to research old land and property decisions by the city's Board of Estimate, which ceased to exist in 1990.

Armagh city was the seat of County Armagh, which ceased to exist as an administrative unit in 1973 but continues to retain a traditional identity.

"There's a saying: That which ceases to be named ceases to exist.

This procedure can replace the 'c'-value as an experimental design parameter, which ceases to be helpful for multi-site systems and in the context of gITC.

It said the balance would be used for other expenses involved in winding up the organisation, which ceases to exist in June 2014.

"It is hard to see how something which ceases to work in this way could be said to be of reasonable quality, one of the determinants of which is durability," he said.

Barrier option (or knock-out option) that initially is a plain vanilla option, but which ceases to exist if the underlying security falls to a predetermined level (the barrier price).