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cease and desist
Idioms and Phrases
Stop, leave off doing something, as in: “Bliss excavated at least once on his own and Dr. Brand ... told him to cease and desist” (Douglas Preston quoting Frank Hibben, The New Yorker , June 12, 1995). This legal term is a redundancy, since cease and desist mean virtually the same thing, but often appears in legal documents to avoid possible misinterpretation. [c. 1920]Example Sentences
It seems not to have dawned on Roberts that if the United States is conducting its foreign affairs in an illegal manner by, for example, committing war crimes in furtherance of U.S. policy aims, it is the business of the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, to uphold the laws by finding such conduct illegal and ordering the Department of State and/or the Department of Defense to cease and desist and correct its errors under court instruction.
“This is the first time in the agency’s history that we’ve had a party blatantly ignore a cease and desist order like this and refuse to submit a permit application,” Cassidy Teufel, deputy director of the California Coastal Commission, told a packed town hall recently.
The report recommends that commissioners fine Sable almost $15 million, issue another cease and desist order for all development along the pipelines and require restoration work.
When Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, asked him politely to “please cease and desist with the mean-spirited, denigrating and hate-filled personal attacks on America’s seniors,” Simpson replied, “you refuse to deal with the math and the facts ... since you make money pretty good by juicing up the troops.”
In an attempt to stop her, Brad went to a solicitor who advised him to send a cease and desist letter.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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