"Thus, I must ask you to cease this discussion."

"There was a potential conflict of interest and they were asked to immediately cease their private business," he said.

I must ask you to cease your depreciations on them.

I would not ask you to cease being human.

I will ask them to cease and desist until they're married.

But you can't just ask people to cease reacting to what is going on around them.

I tried to speak to him, to ask him to cease.

Jones was asked to cease welcoming minorities to the church or leave.

I could and would never ask her to cease seeing them.

Last fall, student leaders asked him to cease the racial and ethnic references.