cessation
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Muir said work is being progressed "as a priority" to develop a temporary cessation scheme to support permit holders affected by the closure of the yellow eel fishery.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Traders seem to be anticipating a repeat of the now familiar pattern—a cessation of hostilities and talk of a “deal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lebanon's embassy in Washington had hours earlier said Hezbollah had accepted a US proposal for a "mutual cessation of attacks", though there has been no official confirmation by the militant group.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
But first, a reminder that the “peace dividend” — that is, the surge of available resources for socially beneficial spending after the cessation of hostilities — has always been an elusive concept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Chicago’s Commercial and Financial Chronicle reported, “Never before has there been such a sudden and striking cessation of industrial activity.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations last week had resulted in an agreement to create tentative cessations of fighting along “green” humanitarian corridors to facilitate civilian evacuations.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
During cessations of hostilities in the 1980s and 1990s, standard immunizations reached children in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lebanon, and Sudan.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2021
Sleep apnea is a term that’s used broadly to describe cessations of breath during sleep.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2017
“Sporadic and temporary cessations of violence cannot become ends in themselves,” said the statement, which was signed by organizations including Oxfam and Save the Children.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2016
There came constantly into her aspect, I should say, the strangest alternatives, as I can only most conveniently call them, of presence and absence—something like intermissions of intensity, cessations and resumptions of life.
From The Sacred Fount by Henry James
Vocabulary lists containing cessation
Lord of the Flies
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The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
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