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Police say that during the visit Flowers did not engage with officers and was given a cease and desist order to deter him from further offending.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Becerra’s campaign called the ad defamatory in a cease and desist letter sent to the Steyer campaign on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Hunt told The Times on Friday that she was aware of two individuals who received cease and desist letters from Swalwell’s team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

In a statement on Thursday, a gardaí spokesperson said the force was "moving to an enforcement phase" unless those blocking access to critical infrastructure "desist and disperse".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Discovery were the latest studios to send cease and desists letter to ByteDance on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

“An honest conversation about coal and its miners needs to be had, and we should neither cease or desists from having it.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017

"I've gotten cease and desists before," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

All black cockades are ruthlessly plucked off: one individual picks his up again; kisses it, attempts to refix it; but a 'hundred canes start into the air,' and he desists.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The names of Prue, Freddy, Oxford, force themselves into her record of expenditure, making nonsense of it, defacing her neat columns; and after half an hour's vain efforts, she desists with a sigh.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Anderson "desisted" when the woman did not say yes and left the bedroom, at which point the complainant heard her vomiting in the bathroom.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

This inaugural episode was met with a cease-and-desist letter from Fox News, and while Carlson neither ceased nor desisted, it ultimately didn’t matter, because “Tucker on Twitter” did not sustain its initial momentum.

From Slate ● May 17, 2024

The next week, her lawyer sent a letter to BRIC, saying that unless Zahedi desisted from airing any episodes featuring footage of Field or the children, she would “commence legal action.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2019

Little by little, the drummers desisted, and one by one the players disassembled the performance.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014

Fleur Delacour gave him a very patronizing look, and he desisted.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

A 2022 study of 317 trans youths discovered that after an average of five years of socially transitioning only 2.5 percent of participants ended up desisting and identifying as cisgender.

From Slate ● May 2, 2023

Here, he knew, Mac had made his gallant stand, desisting only after his instinct told him Jane had fled to safety.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch

Cleo asked Mary, desisting in her efforts to unmask Shep.

From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Garis, Lilian

He alone was irreconcilable, and blustered about legal proceedings, only desisting when persuaded that he had no case, even for the venal courts of San Juan.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

"Oh—" she cried, desisting, "to think of you, helpless all this time, and in the hands of that woman—!"

From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.