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How to use the word ceased in a Sentence?

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[ W ] hen [ parents ] heard Terry McAuliffe say … that parents don't have a role in their kids' education … this ceased to be a campaign, and it started to be a movement led by parents, and while the kitchen table issues that are so important to all Virginians - low taxes and safe communities and great jobs - continued to be very much front and center, education really did become the top issue in this election.

Terry McAuliffe

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The scheme ultimately came to light on that Friday in September, throwing the stock market into rapid decline and bankrupting everybody from Wall Street millionaires to poor citizens, the stock market plummeted by 20%, and foreign trading ceased. The value of wheat and corn harvests dropped by half for peasants.

Lyle David Solomon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[W]hen [parents] heard Terry McAuliffe say…that parents don't have a role in their kids' education…this ceased to be a campaign, and it started to be a movement led by parents, and while the kitchen table issues that are so important to all Virginians - low taxes and safe communities and great jobs - continued to be very much front and center, education really did become the top issue in this election.

Ed Durr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People will keep on doing the same things they like to do in many places not because they don't care about others. They just keep on holding on to opportunities while chances are still not ceased.

Clifford V. Villalon

added by Chry$ler070494
3 years ago

I ceased to be happy in the job and I ceased to be happy spending time with Mr. Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Mediate what? the military altercation has ceased with the command of Mekelle ... The provisional administration has [been] set up and a regional council formed in Tigray.

Billene Seyoum

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're kind of stereotyped as the tribes that met the Pilgrims and that's our whole history, like we ceased to exist in 1621, that couldn't be further from the truth.

Robert Maxim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Human evolution has ceased because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It would make sense for us to provide additional services into the day parts where we would normally have ceased operating.

Sean Collins

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

All of these factors created a perfect storm and unfortunately, patients ceased seeking care externally by a significant percentage. .... When income is cut in half, it is difficult to maintain the same expense levels.

Laurel Stoimenoff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The Latin American people believed and feel that we Filipinos form part of that vast family, the children of Spain. Thus, although Spain ceased to govern those countries many years ago and although another nation is sovereign in the Philippines, those Latin-American peoples feel themselves as brothers to the people of the Philippines. It is the Spanish language that still binds us to those peoples, and the Spanish language will bind us to those peoples eternally if we have the wisdom and patriotism of preserving it.

Manuel L. Quezon

added by MuerteEnCuatroActos
5 years ago

His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller, his talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much.

Food Network

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I ’d say one of the things that I never ceased to be amazed by is the triumph of the human spirit to endure through... unfathomable pain, what families live with when they have these kinds of unanswered questions. Even though I’ve seen it throughout my career, there’s never a time when I ’m not amazed by the people that survive and endure … I do believe we will have helped answer some very significant questions throughout these different investigations.

Kris Mohandie -LRB- left -RRB-

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

While a purchaser may have exercised that right, it doesn't necessarily mean that the dialogue it had with its seller has ceased, in some cases negotiations continue around price and there may still be a deal to be done, albeit on slightly different terms.

Imogen Moss

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are several reasons why risk should start selling off once again. The spikes in dollar/yuan are once again suggesting the capital outflow pressure hasn't entirely ceased, and it has possible intensified over the past month.

Luis Costa

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

KAY ARTHUR

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

Gaza needs cement, all kinds and sizes of lumber, raw chemicals, iron for metalworks, all of which have ceased completely, what counts is whether Israel will allow the banned goods to enter Gaza, not an increase the number of trucks carrying the already permitted list of goods.

Mahed Al-Tabbaa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

VW Kombi are no longer common in Uganda, they ceased to be used as taxis and buses in 2000.

Rachel Landman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Across all conflict lines we can see hostilities have ceased heavy armor started to be moved.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Seán O'Casey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

F. H. Bradley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

F. H. Bradley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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