Word: desist
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...they share a common enemy in the U.S. - it's far from clear that the path of engagement can yield the desired result in terms of Iran's nuclear program. Analysts fear that Tehran may now be racing headlong to build a nuclear weapon despite international pressure to desist, possibly sparking a preemptive military response from Israel, which views any challenge to its presumed nuclear monopoly in the region as an intolerable threat...
...Cabinet, especially when Freneau began to mount withering assaults on Hamilton and even Washington. Never one to suffer in silence, Hamilton retaliated in a blizzard of newspaper articles published under Roman pseudonyms. The backbiting between Hamilton and Jefferson grew so acrimonious that Washington had to exhort both men to desist...
...while others seemed apprehensive about the road ahead. My colleague and I were all but lost in the tumult until we emerged from building 41 and began scribbling notes down and snapping digital photos. Google security (yes, there is such a thing) pounced immediately admonishing us to cease and desist. "I was a second lieutenant in the Marines, do you want to play games?" said the stocky security guard. And that's when the company with the pre-school-like logo suddenly didn't seem so playful...
...commissioner’s office is the only body that can stop this madness, because the incentives for teams and high-schoolers are too strong for them to voluntarily cease and desist. Either it needs to institute an age cap or develop the proposed minor league system, giving teams places to put developing high-schoolers instead of having them take up valuable roster spots...
...Jung?that avowed champion of openness, law and democracy?launched tax probes against local media, a move many saw as an attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price tag of at least $100 million...