Enforce bail conditions, including desistance from the use of expensive illicit drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the follow-up studies I've done, and others too, show that a substantial majority of kids seen for GID in childhood show desistance — that is, when they're older they don't want to be the other sex. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Brother Polycarp rapped his wand on the easel and the fluting straggled to indefinite desistance. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. ❋ Unknown (2001)
They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves! ❋ Unknown (2001)
At one station, she shook up her children to look at a man on the platform and say if he were not like Mr. Z.; while to me she explained how she had been keeping company with this Mr. Z., how far matters had proceeded, and how it was because of his desistance that she was now travelling to the West. ❋ Unknown (1892)
All these charges were quieted by intrigue, bribery of the judges, or desistance of the accuser. ❋ Unknown (1890)
THERE are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. ❋ Unknown (1885)
This effort proved vain, for on one side she was defended by the wall of the room and on the other rendered inaccessible by Miriam's mother, who clung to her with a quickly-rooted fidelity, showing no symptom of desistance. ❋ Henry James (1879)
It was felt by them at the time to be an additional incentive to moderation, to sobriety, to desistance from extreme views. ❋ Yonge, Charlotte M (1873)
Perhaps the mover in the house was watching from a window, and plucked up courage at the sight of this desistance; or perhaps, where he lurked trembling in the back parts of the villa, reason in its own right had conquered his alarms. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
This comparative want of enjoyment which we have named as a cause of early desistance from artificial exercises, is also a cause of inferiority in the effects they produce on the system. ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)
Not that mental activity which is spontaneous and enjoyable does the mischief; but that which is persevered in after a hot or aching head commands desistance. ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)
If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance; if the oppression produced by a close atmosphere always led to ventilation; if there were no eating without hunger, or drinking without thirst; then would the system be but seldom out of working order. ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)
