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- verb Present participle of
discontinue .
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Examples
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If ICANN adopts the anti-tasting provision, Network Solutions will feel safe in discontinuing its service.
Is Domain Name Front Running About To Come To An End? - The Consumerist 2008
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In prohibiting any visit to the tomb, the Wahabys never entertained the idea of discontinuing the visit to the mosque.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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In prohibiting any visit to the tomb, the Wahabys never entertained the idea of discontinuing the visit to the mosque.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Last month a group of councillors proposed the idea of discontinuing public transit service to Gatineau in an attempt to make it easier to get Ottawa transit designated an essential service.
Ottawa Sun 2009
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Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said the SFO was "discontinuing" its investigation into Britain's biggest defence company, BAE Systems.
"A police state would be where ministers were directing an investigation" Not a sheep 2008
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Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said the SFO was "discontinuing" its investigation into Britain's biggest defence company, BAE Systems.
Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008
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While some of that will certainly be harmful, such as discontinuing the Bush tax cuts, none of that damage is damage that will really be permanent, as far as I can see, except for perhaps the outside chance of Bush signing Kyoto.
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In which kind of discontinuing his fauour to his sworne children, he sheweth himselfe verie ingratefull, and not worthie of the dutifulnesse wherewith (like buzzards as they be) they ouercharge their hellish (holie I would saie) father.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Stirn, indeed, recommended much more stringent proceedings than all these indications of a change of policy, which, he averred, would soon bring the parish to its senses -- such as discontinuing many little jobs of unprofitable work that employed the surplus labor of the village.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Stirn, indeed, recommended much more stringent proceedings than all these indications of a change of policy, which, he averred, would soon bring the parish to its senses, -- such as discontinuing many little jobs of unprofitable work that employed the surplus labour of the village.
My Novel — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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