Word: desist
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Also discussed at the hearing were charges of institutional harassment, including the city's failure to pick up the school's garbage for several weeks. In addition, neighbors obtained a cease-and-desist order to prevent the school from moving in equipment early last fall...
...company's brokers pushed him a little too far. Five years ago, the suburban Boston lawyer began an epic campaign to stop Merrill Lynch's brokers, as well as numerous rival callers, from peppering him with phone pitches. First he wrote a polite letter asking the company to desist, but still the calls came. Then he wrote a more threatening note, and still the calls came...
...hearing functions like the proceedings of most lower courts. A commissioner acts as a judge at the hearing and can issue a "cease and desist" order and award money to the complainant...
Canada's Fitness and Sport Minister, former Skater Otto Jelinek, apparently agreed, and asked O.C.O. to "cease and desist" from harassing small companies that were clearly not hurting the licensing efforts. O.C.O. has taken added lumps over public suspicions that it is elitist -- giving sponsors & preferential treatment on tickets and accommodations, being more interested in playing host to such visiting royalty as Norway's King Olav, Spain's Juan Carlos and Monaco's Prince Rainier than it is in the people of the host city. "I hope the Games do show a profit," says Reg Brown, 44, a rancher outside...
After Nicaragua appeared before the World Court and charged the U.S. with mining its harbors, the Reagan Administration refused to accept the court's order to desist. Considering the atmosphere created by the Government, should we be surprised with the ethics of those in the Administration who have gone astray...