Word: desist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
After Diebold sent a cease-and-desist order to Harvard, the University removed the memoranda from Slater’s website...
...University removed the documents from Slater’s website in October after Diebold sent a cease and desist order to Harvard...
...students at MIT were forced to remove the documents after their university received a cease and desist order from Diebold last month, but a third MIT site run by graduate student Christopher E. Kuklewicz still features the memoranda...
Rather, Slater received a cease-and-desist letter from Harvard on Oct. 31 after posting thousands of internal documents about an electronic voting machine manufacturer on his Harvard-hosted website...