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After police officers had used megaphones to call on those gathered to desist from violence, they used water cannons and tear gas to temporarily disperse the crowd.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Last month, Dawn Buckingham, who leads the General Land Office, sent a cease and desist letter to CBP and a federal contractor she said had illegally cleared GLO-owned land in Presidio County.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

Small is represented by barrister Francis McEntegart, who sent a cease and desist letter to the club with a demand for compensation.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

Villiers follows to Prag; desists not from his eloquent Letters, and earnest persuasions at Prag; but begins to perceive that the means of persuading Bruhl will be a much heavier kind of artillery.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

Still, the merchant rightly desists from any course which he finds in the long run commercially unprofitable.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer

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

During that time I’d desisted not only from buying a new wallet but even from cancelling or replacing my credit cards and my driver’s license and my health-insurance card.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

I didn’t need much talking into, but at the last minute, Patria desisted.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

Others were for desisting at once from the whole enterprise and making for New York; but the appetising name of treasure, and the thought of the long way they had already travelled, dissuaded the majority.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

But, after Jack had gone out, he resumed his study of the detector a second time, desisting every time he heard a step outside.

From The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn

He began to go over it all, but, desisting from sheer inability, pitched his attention on the rapids.

From The Rapids by Alan Sullivan

This too he bore without desisting & at the end of some months once more asked me with passionate entreaties.

From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist