What's the difference between cessation and desistance?

Cessation


Definition:

  • (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, after the cessation of this treatment Streptococcus viridans grew in her blood again.
  • (2) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (3) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
  • (4) In the case of the reticulum cell sarcoma, the tumor had not reappeared in some of the animals two months after cessation of treatment.
  • (5) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
  • (6) These results suggest that weight change during smoking reduction and cessation may be primarily due to changes in factors other than caloric intake or activity.
  • (7) After cessation of exposures, HEVal was lost faster than predicted by the normal erythrocyte life span alone.
  • (8) These findings resolved upon cessation of timolol and reappeared on 3 occasions shortly after reinstitution of the beta blocker therapy.
  • (9) Differential plating yielded relatively pure populations of chromaffin cells that demonstrated excellent viability if processed within 2 hours after cessation of the gland's circulation.
  • (10) Infected explants exhibited cytopathological changes that correlated well with cessation of ciliary activity.
  • (11) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
  • (12) Cessation of coital activity was associated with specified types of stress between 65 and 70 years of age in the subgroup of men who had stopped due to inability; six out of eight reported stress against five out of 20 in the C group, P less than 0.05.
  • (13) When intracellular recordings were made from muscle cells of the sinus venosus, it was found that applied acetylcholine caused bradycardia and a cessation of the heart beat which was associated with membrane hyperpolarization and a reduction in the duration of the action potentials.
  • (14) After cessation her previously regular menstrual periods became very irregular and complete amenorrhea had lasted 4 months.
  • (15) These reversible changes in adrenergic regulation after smoking cessation may be associated with the relatively rapid reduction in cardiovascular disease risk among ex-smokers.
  • (16) Arterial blood samples were collected during the base-line period (after pressure fluctuations had stabilized, with the cats spontaneously breathing room air), 2.5 minutes after the onset of arrest (defined as the cessation of aortic pressure fluctuations), and after 10 minutes of CPR.
  • (17) After cessation of the aldosterone blockade, BW increased 1.9%, PV 10.5% while PRA and PA fell 60% and 48.9%, respectively.
  • (18) We report three cases of exceptionally late recurrences of childhood ALL after cessation of chemotherapy (CT) given for respective periods of 8, 7, and 24 months.
  • (19) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.
  • (20) However, this activity was not detectable right after the cessation of IFN administration.

Desistance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
  • (2) We suspect that this hazard is more prevalent than its scarcity in the literature would suggest and that potential for unintended injury should be a prominent factor in the decision to proceed or desist with resection of a large neuroblastoma.
  • (3) Manchester United manager Ed Woodward is reported to have sent Chelsea a "terse" letter, warning them to cease and desist in their efforts to sign Wayne Rooney .
  • (4) Functions for the probability of feeding success and desistance over time were derived using data from observations on 300 mosquitoes.
  • (5) Last week the service pleaded with the public to desist from killing wild animals and instead contact the nearest office of the service.
  • (6) The agency’s ability to mute the proceedings was a surprise to Pohl, who issued a cease-and-desist order .
  • (7) He also told those briefing against Ed Miliband to desist, saying they should "get over it" and realise they had lost the Labour leadership election.
  • (8) Similar 22-kilohertz vocalizations occur in other social contexts, and in general they appear to be desist-contact signals.
  • (9) UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's office has said he is "gravely concerned" and has called on all sides to exercise the utmost restraint and desist from provocative actions: "He strongly condemns the excessive use of force by government security forces against unarmed protestors in the capital Sana'a, resulting in scores of people killed and many more injured."
  • (10) Britain has been an enthusiastic advocate of EU and US sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, and on Wednesday Cameron warned Putin that if he did not desist from supporting the rebels there would have financial and economic consequences for his country for many years to come.
  • (11) The authors desist from proposing genus and species names for the same reasons.
  • (12) Does a desisting doctor share responsibility, if he refers a patient to another doctor, who he knows would willingly perform prenatal diagnostics?
  • (13) Kaká came on to help Madrid seek it but Jupp Heynckes's side did not desist.
  • (14) The author points out the need for desisting from a scientific posture that switches the professional practice of Psychology into a mere diffusing of the Philosophy of Behavior--instead of resorting to technics aiming at modifying a behavior the patient feels as unpleasant or unadapted.
  • (15) So we have to be very firm and strong about the sanctions and say to Vladimir Putin: ‘What you are doing is unacceptable and it will have economic and financial consequences for many years to come if you do not desist with your behaviour’.” Speaking during a visit to West Sussex, Cameron underlined his intention to keep pressure on European Union partners to maintain the sanctions regime against Russia despite the ceasefire agreement.
  • (16) Houston’s city attorney, David Feldman, sent an email to Uber last month formally asking that it “cease and desist” from encouraging the public to write to officials demanding the introduction of the service.
  • (17) Two years later, in the summer of 2010, UberCab opened in San Francisco with just a small fleet of cars and a handful of employees, to be greeted by a cease-and-desist order from the city’s municipal transportation agency.
  • (18) Michael Gove may decry criticism of British leadership as an “out-of-touch elite”, but aerial photographs have proved that while the German defence had constructed concrete bunkers four deep, as late as 1916 old Oxford cavalrymen like Haig – drawn from class not qualification – desisted from resourcing trench warfare, insisting that a breakthrough was still possible.
  • (19) "It's a very serious situation - the message from the United States is Iran should cease and desist."
  • (20) Most of the time when we get issues like that coming to us we send out a desist notice and we say to the press, 'Look, there's an issue here, you may be in breach of the code, you got those photographs by harassment, you've got an issue to do with the privacy of that family, hold back' and they do.

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