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How to use the word ceasing in a Sentence?

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Ultimately, the test will come down to whether Xi is actually able to exert any real influence on Putin, especially in terms of ceasing the war.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By measuring alcohol consumption at two time points, we were able to study the relationship between reducing, ceasing, maintaining and increasing alcohol consumption and incident dementia.

Keun Hye Jeon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we can not continue reporting the way we wanted to and the way we feel safe to, ceasing operation is regrettably the only choice.

Citizen News

Found on CNN
2 years ago

More and more small and medium-sized companies are ceasing to trade (in Britain) because of these (Brexit-related) hurdles.

Michael Schmidt

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Abortion providers should join the thousands of other medical professionals across the state in ceasing elective procedures, unless the life of the mother is at risk, to protect the health of their patients and slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Alexis McGill Johnson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The courts are ceasing to protect human rights. They are disassociating from previously held positions, they are divided decisions that when there are doubts, the best option is to vote for freedoms and not restrict them. The presumption of innocence is violated.

Alejandro Balsells

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Thirty days from now we want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire, based on a pullback from the border and then based on ceasing dropping of bombs that will permit the( United Nations-sponsored) special envoy, Martin Griffiths -- he's very good, Martin Griffiths knows what Martin Griffiths's doing -- to get them together in Sweden and end this war.

James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Thirty days from now we want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire, based on a pullback from the border and then based on ceasing dropping of bombs that will permit the( UN) special envoy, Martin Griffiths -- he's very good, he knows what he's doing -- to get them together in Sweden and end this war.

Jim Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In particular, President Obama emphasized the importance now of Russia playing a constructive role by ceasing its air campaign against moderate opposition forces in Syria.

The White House

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ceasing osteoporosis treatment has demonstrated to increase the risk of fractures, unfortunately we see that situation every day.

Gustavo Duque

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everyone understands that there isn't an ideal truce and an ideal regime of ceasing fire.

Sergey Lavrov

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We will focus on the post-merger corporate governance arrangement, we are ceasing any legal action.

Mike Lubrano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I sent a letter today to the President of the The IAAF, Lamine Diack, with the offer of temporarily ceasing to work as treasurer and as a member of the council of this organization.

Valentin Balakhnichev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Peace Pilgrim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

T. S. Eliot

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.

John Blofeld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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