The Muslims decided to have with them a Christian, since every time one was retained the phenomena would cease.

And when he died and I folded his hands atop it, the phenomenon had ceased.

If my companions moved but a few steps away, the acoustic phenomenon would cease.

When the rails were later ripped up by Conrail crews, the phenomenon ceased.

But the phenomenon, even thus reduced by a rational explanation, did not cease to excite my surprise.

When the number of free charges drops or the electric field weakens, the phenomenon ceases.

In a minute or so the moon take her way onward, and this phenomenon will cease.

The important point here is that phenomena arise and cease according to (complex) conditions.

After this, the phenomena gradually ceased for good.

He asks whether a general phenomenon would cease to be a feature of a society if particular individuals held different beliefs.