cease and desist

Examples of ceasing

ceasing

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

It must be the case that many officials of a legal institution can suffer alienation without the legal institution ceasing to be a social practice.
Expression of other moods (and modalities) may lack some of the characteristics associated with the prototypical, without ceasing to be finite.
A similar reporting obligation applies where a research project ceases before completion of research and includes an obligation to give reasons for ceasing research.
Fear is inferred from the infant's suddenly ceasing his activity to retreat from an object, while fixating it.
Ceasing to employ various service groups-for instance at weddings-would inculcate habits of frugality and remove religious impurity, frivolity and vulgarity.
Latencies to first attempt at obtaining help and ceasing to attempt to solve puzzles were also noted for each puzzle trial.
But she could not cease to be a person without ceasing to exist.
I believe this to be no good reason for ceasing our prayers.
Through the privatization of formerly statesuppor ted railroad companies and the ceasing of subsidies the price sensitivity of the customers increased substantially.
What we have, instead, is a ' more' that transcends the individual circle that geometry understands, without in the least ceasing to be geometrical in character.
The findings indicate that acknowledging that death is near is not necessarily the same as ceasing to fight death.
Firstly lazy evaluation is sequential and performs minimum work, with reduction ceasing when the expression is in weak head normal form.
In the 1999 survey, economic issues were the main reasons for potentially ceasing to farm organically.
On the positive side, independence was enhanced in older age when people were freed from the constraints placed on them by ceasing work.
The same happens now: the physicist must become a geometer, for otherwise he runs the risk of ceasing to be a physicist and vice versa.
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