cease work
Example Sentences
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In 2022, the Park Service notified company officials that the mine was operating without authorization and demanded that it cease work until it submitted an operations plan and won the agency’s approval, those documents state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Participants suffering from musculoskeletal pain were also 1.25 times more likely to cease work sooner, whether or not they described themselves as retired.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
Among the most dramatic improvements in their life was the determination of Black women to cease work in the fields.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021
It also has to dilute or convert its stockpile of this higher-grade uranium, and cease work on the Arak heavy water reactor, which could provide plutonium, an alternative to uranium for bombs.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2014
I have just ordered the men to cease work and take rest.
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
