desistance

Enforce bail conditions, including desistance from the use of expensive illicit drugs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment: A Checklist 2009

Enforce bail conditions, including desistance from the use of expensive illicit drugs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 2009 » October 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.

Mommy, don't take me there! Zoe Brain 2008

Brother Polycarp rapped his wand on the easel and the fluting straggled to indefinite desistance.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Brother Polycarp rapped his wand on the easel and the fluting straggled to indefinite desistance.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves!

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 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.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

All these charges were quieted by intrigue, bribery of the judges, or desistance of the accuser.

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890

THERE are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885