cease and desist

Examples of ceased

ceased

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Others re-visited once or twice in the first 3 months and then ceased visiting unless problems were thought likely to occur.
As the study of developmental psychology devotes virtually no attention to the adult years, the assumption is that development has ceased by this time.
In four of these the relationship had ceased to exist by the time the pregnancy was discovered.
By the end of the eighteenth century, mining ceased to be the force promoting economic growth.
Salons ceased to be associated, as they had been at times during the eighteenth century, with the political and cultural avantgarde.
Cultural assimilation has ceased to be acceptable to indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies.
Emission from a stainless steel cathode completely ceased after 10 6 pulses.
All had ceased lessons and stopped playing by the time they were fourteen years old.
Yet the truth is that parties in both countries have for a long time ceased to be anything other than electoral machines.
But, for some, the future was not something to contemplate, they had either ceased to live for themselves or were waiting to die.
Have institutions like the family indeed ceased to function as vectors of transmission?
Opposition groups have not ceased in criticizing the treaty and calling for its abrogation.
The issue is complex, controversial, and begs the question of who should have the authority to determine that conditions of insecurity have ceased.
Nationalism had surely played a positive role in modern liberalism in the nineteenth century, but now its historic mission had ceased.
In sum, with the decline in rural income in the 1930s, pampean agriculture ceased to attract capital at the same pace as in the past.
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