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Within a couple of weeks, his crying stopped, within a month, his depression was gone.
She stopped writing and closed all of her social media accounts, which is, you know, a tough thing to do when you're a journalist.
I wanted to be like the models, so I stopped eating.
The moment people thought about trying to recall The Ten Commandments, they stopped cheating.
Meet Moshi, a tribal poacher, who not only stopped hunting and became our most prized conservationist, but also used his traditional knowledge to educate his entire community to stop hunting fishing cats, otters and the many other threatened species that live in the mangroves in his backyard.
The key for a given cell spins the dial to the right position, which, when stopped there, makes it turn green and unlocks the door.
AF: She, Chris, is a ragpicker, and there were 15, 20 million ragpickers like her, until China stopped taking everyone's waste.
All that savage grandeur, the steely glinting hooves, the eruptions driven from the creature's mighty innards, breath stopped, heart stopped, nostrils madly flared, I didn't know if I wanted to break him, or be him.
And that really struck me about my father, in the sense that he had such belief that somehow, doing these things giving in the way that he gave, that something good would come out of it, even in the middle of a war, there was a war with Pakistan at one point, and the construction stopped totally and he kept working, because he felt, "Well when the war is done they'll need this building."
That's when my husband stopped wanting to have sex as much, and now we barely have sex at all."
Life outside also seems to have stopped.
Mexican officials, although they had given me a valid visa, stopped me and told me that I couldn't enter the country because a foreign government had placed a travel alert on my passport, designating me as a national security risk.
It might be longer, a month is just when Candice stopped measuring.
People stopped littering.
But, steady state doesn't mean that things are getting better, it's just that they have stopped getting worse.
Firstly, eviction needs to be stopped.
Bulldozing needs to be stopped.
I only stopped because I thought if I got caught, what would happen to my mother.
So there it was, Thursday morning we stopped the pig's medication and there is his electrogram, the signal from inside the pig's heart coming out by radio telemetry.
But then I stopped, because I figured, "Oh, you know, I made it.
But then I stopped because I figured, "Hey, I'm good enough.
But then I stopped, because I figured I was this hot-shot guy and I shouldn't have to work at ideas, they should just come like magic.
We stopped irrigating our soil, as much as we could.
We stopped tilling, so that we could prevent greenhouse gasses from going into the air.
So at the end of the two years when we came out, we were elated, because, in fact, although you might say we had discovered something that was quite "uhh," when your oxygen is going down, stopped working, essentially, in your life support system, that's a very bad failure.
And a remarkable doctor in Hong Kong responded immediately, by slaughtering 1.5 million chickens and birds, and they stopped that outbreak in its tracks.
I think it's the only precedent in which money has ever been stopped from being used.
It was kind of like the same thing that happens when you, like when you're getting stopped for a traffic ticket in L.A., and the cop drops a bag of marijuana in the back of your car, and then charges you for possession of marijuana.
Aaron Filler from Harvard said, "Isn't it time we stopped talking about selective pressures?
In June 2014, the French security services stopped monitoring the communications of Said and Cherif Kouachi, the two brothers who had been on a terror watch list for three years.
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