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How to use the word Cease in a Sentence?

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In a society brimming with empathy and compassion, the concept of homelessness would cease to exist; for it is through the genuine sharing and caring for one another that we eradicate the silence of suffering and build the symphony of a harmonious humanity.

Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
3 months ago

from ODE to a NIGHTENGALE: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

John Keats

added by Steppenwolf
9 months ago

Albeit they doubt the achivement, Never can they cease it or take it away from you. For it carries a signal and a description of your tremendous effort...

Kirya Michael Owen

added by Kirya
11 months ago

Effectively requiring Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to cease distribution of mifepristone after more than two decades would upend the status quo, severely harming women, healthcare systems, and the public.

Justice Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Second, it was trying to get to a cease-fire and diplomacy as others were banging war drums, not criticizing Biden. Third, I’ve supported the efforts will continue. Over-analyzed by some.

Pramila Jayapal

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If at any point the law-enforcement personnel assigned to the investigation subsequently identify any data or documents that they consider may be potentially attorney-client privileged, they will cease the review of such identified data or documents and refer the materials to the Privilege Review Team for further review by the Privilege Review Team.

The FBI

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend. Right now my thoughts are with Sir Salman Rushdie loved ones. We are all hoping Sir Salman Rushdie is okay.

Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The exercises are unprecedented as the PLA conventional missiles are expected to fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time, the PLA forces will enter areas within 12 nautical miles of the island and the so-called median line will cease to exist.

Global Times

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be a catastrophe if Putin won. He'd love nothing more than to say, 'Let's freeze this conflict, let's have a cease-fire,'.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We intend to exclude Huawei Technologies and ZTE from our 5G networks, providers who already have this equipment installed will be required to cease its use and remove it under the plans we're announcing today.

Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In just a few weeks, the war has wrought such devastation for Ukraine’s children, children urgently need peace and protection. They need their rights. UNICEF continues to appeal for an immediate cease-fire and for the protection of children from harm. Essential infrastructure on which children depend, including hospitals, schools and buildings sheltering civilians, must never come under attack.

Catherine Russell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The secretary-general has been in constant contact with numerous leaders and parties. Among them are heads of the governments and senior leaders of Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Turkey, Israel. Finland, France, Russia, and many others. from the very first day of the conflict, he made an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation to cease fighting. As he has been emphasizing, countless innocent people – including women and children – have been killed, and this escalating violence is totally unacceptable. The protection of civilians must be priority number one.

Clifford May

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Within a year Russia will cease to have any kind of viable airline industry.

Richard Aboulafia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A negotiated cease-fire…will take place when conditions that were put forward by Russia will be implemented, conditions are demilitarization of Ukraine, densification of Ukraine. No threat which comes from the territory to Russia. No joining NATO.

Vassily Nebenzia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If Putin continues to get boxed in through sanctions, trading and banking stoppages -- and he starts losing the war, that may be reason enough for him to employ tactical nuclear weapons, the West needs to continue to apply pressure, attempt to broker a settlement/cease-fire while continuing to offer off-ramps that deescalate the potential.

Defense Policy John Venable

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You must leave, you must cease further unlawful activity and immediately remove your vehicle and/or property from all unlawful protest sites. Anyone within the unlawful protest site may be arrested.

Ottawa Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The arrest of Fahad Shah shows Jammu and Kashmir Walla authorities' utter disregard for press freedom and the fundamental right of journalists to report freely and safely, authorities must immediately release Fahad Shah, and all other journalists behind bars, and cease detaining and harassing journalists for simply doing their jobs.

Steven Butler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The amount of pain Kristy Hoskins has caused by ripping Kamarie out of our lives will never cease, we are glad to see that Kristy Hoskins has been arrested. We are one step closer to justice for Kamarie. It’s our hope that justice is served. Kristy Hoskins should receive whatever the maximum penalty Kristy Hoskins can get.

Corey Holland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

added by Normando
2 years ago

My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Mark Twain

added by Normando
2 years ago

The US and China are very concerned by the PRC's provocative military activity near Taiwan, as The US and China said, the activity is destabilizing. It risks miscalculation and it has the potential to undermine regional peace and stability. So, The US and China strongly urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and coercion directed at Taiwan.

Tony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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    the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
    A impurity
    B anil
    C hypernym
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