Word: desisted
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Students "are required to obey the instructions of officers of the University," Epps told the audience, instructing them to "desist in shouting" or "leave the room...
...consciousness; in Paris. Founder and editor of her own influential magazine, L 'Europe Nouvelle, from 1918 to 1934, she left to campaign for female suffrage, once chaining herself with friends across the Rue Royale to block traffic. In 1936 Weiss was offered a Cabinet post if she would desist; she refused. French women finally got the vote...
Horrified, National League President Chub Feeney ordered Turner to desist for the good of baseball. Turner watched the next game, a victory, from the stands, but a couple of days later he was in uniform again. He took batting practice, and was about to try his hand at strategy once more when a stern telegram arrived from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. When Turner phoned Kuhn, the exasperated commissioner uttered the single memorable sentence of a career devoted to prudent locution...
...fault for these deepening dilemmas lies largely with the Soviet Union. If the Soviets were truly interested in restoring stable mutual deterrence, they could scale down their military machine and desist from international behavior that provokes crises...
...million East Everglades study that became part of a national wetlands preservation program. Many put up dwellings without building permits. Those who dug water holes rarely bothered to tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which supervises wetland areas. When officials finally served summonses and cease-and-desist orders, some were run off at gunpoint...