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cease and desist



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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]
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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.”

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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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That 2023 letter explicitly revoked the authorization and ordered Colosseum Rare Metals to cease and desist any activities other than water quality monitoring.

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In May, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin wrote cease and desist letters to Aid Access in the Netherlands and Choices Women’s Medical Center in New York City, stating that “abortion pills may not legally be shipped to Arkansas” and accusing the medical organizations of potentially “false, deceptive, and unconscionable trade practices” that carry up to $10,000 per violation.

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Researchers at UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Davis have confirmed receiving federal notices that grant reviews have been halted; one received a directive to “cease and desist,” sowing confusion over what part of the research project should be stopped, the UC official said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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