Word: desist
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Dartboard urges them to examine a map as Dartboard has done and desist in their whining. Leverett’s towers are so proximate to Mather that if Dartboard were to fall out of his own first floor window, Dartboard would not be surprised to find himself in Mather’s courtyard...
...evening, and diners can hail down passing rump steak and pork loin as if they were vacant taxis. The attentive waiters and waitresses slice the meat onto your plate and will continue to do so until you—very firmly—instruct them to cease and desist. It’s a competitive eating race—the winner is the last man, um, sitting...
...book, Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner quotes U.S. officials as saying a key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, Abu Zubaydah, told his interrogators that al-Qaeda had an explicit deal with the Saudi royals to desist from violence in the kingdom in exchange for Saudi financing. Abu Zubaydah is said to have claimed that bin Laden told him he had made the deal in 1991 with Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the longtime Saudi intelligence chief. Posner writes that Abu Zubaydah claimed to have attended several meetings with Turki and bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...attacked by the U.S. The Bush administration is reluctant to offer any concessions, which would in effect reward North Korea's violation of previous treaties. By assembling a coalition of nations capable, by virtue of their economic ties to North Korea, to press Pyongyang to desist from going nuclear, the Bush administration may have also raised the pressure on the U.S. to, as China's official Xinhua news agency put it on Wednesday, address North Korea's "legitimate security concerns...
Gregory Smith, an attorney representing Blackboard, said that Hoffman and Griffith have complied with the cease and desist order and have agreed to an extension of those restrictions for another 45 days...