desist from

I wish my younger brother would desist from playing network games all day, otherwise he would have to discontinue his study.

voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

Or maybe you saw yourself advising her to desist from the oldest trick in the book?

In return for such a commitment, the US Treasury secretary would desist from branding China a currency manipulator next month.

The judge told the man to desist from threatening his wife.

The Ministry of Internal Security urges you to please desist from sending or forwarding any SMS that may cause public unrest.

I wish he' d desist from entertaining his friends at all hours of the day and night.

The cease-and-desist from the Joyce estate seems spurious to me, contravening the spirit of fair use in the arts and sciences.

She added that China is already pushing al-Bashir to desist from hostile action towards the south and instead negotiate with the south.

Therefore, please could you desist from showing any forwarders's name and address as consignees for any Saudi Arabian consignment.

ordering the units or individuals under inspection to desist from violating this Law and to perform their statutory obligations.

instructing the unit under inspection to desist from violating this Law and to fulfil their statutory obligations.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

They were told to desist from spreading grapevine news.

You ought to desist from such foolish activities.

The employer asked the man to desist from useless labour.

Kindly desist from treating the disabled so coldly.

But in 2011 managers will do something about it and desist from communicating with staff in this way.

He can constrain an enemy to desist from harming me, even though he has a mind to do so.

Other than that, as Mr Ozel suggests, it should desist from promising any more than it can deliver.

You'd better desist from useless labour