Paul Keating

I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.

Australian Politician

Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Tibetan Leader

Maria Montessori

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Italian Educator

Horace

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Roman Poet

Ezra Pound

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

American Poet

Michael Arad

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Israeli Architect

Often used in legal contexts where failure to desist has consequences.

Legally Binding

Used when formally asking someone to stop an action, more polite than 'stop'.

Formal Requests

Used when referring to stopping an action that has been ongoing.

Persistent Action

 And the hard part about fact questions is they're notoriously hard to resolve at an early stage in the case, because when you think about a life span of a lawsuit, it starts out as a cease and desist letter. You need to pay me or I'll sue you. It goes forward and it's going to take years. And the thing about fact questions, they don't get resolved until the end of that process.

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Desist

To stop doing something.

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