Word: desistant
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...into virtual slaves. Catholics were excluded from political life, forbidden to have their own schools and could not buy back land from Protestants, some of whom were sympathetic to their plight. In 1791, Wolfe Tone, a Dublin Protestant, formed a Society of United Irishmen, whose members swore "never to desist in our efforts until we have subverted the authority of England over our country and asserted our independence." His movement failed, and he died in its cause...
...Unusual Invective. Apart from the question of China's admission, the dominant issue was the perennially deadlocked Middle East. The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution urging Israel to desist from its attempts to change the status of Jerusalem. Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik accused Israel of fascism and racism for building Israeli housing on what had been Arab land. If the plight of Soviet Jews improved, Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tek-oah countered, "the voice of the Soviet Union would be heard with greater respect." At that Malik warned, "Don't stick your long nose into our garden. History...
...testified that the defendant had been studying in the inner room of her two room single while the calls were placed. He said she went into the outer room of her suite after two or three calls had been made and asked the person placing the calls to desist...
...clergymen stood up during a presentation of a zoning question at a meeting of the Omaha City Council and began singing "The Star Spangled Banner." After finishing the National Anthem, they marched around the council chamber singing "We Shall Overcome." The Council president asked them to desist. When they refused, he had them arrested for disturbing the meeting. The clergymen argued in court that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they contended, was a statement of moral feeling protected by the First...
...teach-in for the explicit purpose of depriving them of an opportunity to speak, and depriving me and others like me of the right to hear them. The attack upon our liberties was carefully planned and organized, and no amount of pleading or remonstration could induce the attackers to desist. They were asked to cease in the name of freedom. They chanted on. They were asked to cease in the name of peace. They chanted more savagely. And even when their violence had crushed the defenseless freedoms of others in the audience, their chants of power thundered on, though victory...