There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/desistance+]
All these charges were quieted by intrigue, bribery of the judges, or desistance of the accuser. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
It was felt by them at the time to be an additional incentive to moderation, to sobriety, to desistance from extreme views. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
Researchers have identified a correlation between military service and desistance from crime among youths, many of whom have had delinquent pasts. From Wordnik.com. [Sentencing Law and Policy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
This current project is intended to expand upon the life course perspective as the military can act as a "rehabilitative agent" which will act as a hook for change, thereby facilitating desistance from criminal behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Sentencing Law and Policy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
A few major areas of interest in this field are causes of crime, prevention of crime, crime statistics, criminal behaviour, penology, evaluation of criminal justice agencies, sociology of law, etc. and criminal careers and desistance. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
"desistance phenomenon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Third Victim]
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