Ministers are telling others to stop doing something which is rife in Whitehall.
None of our children are called Veronica, but we always say it when we want them to stop doing something.
Why should I stop doing something that brings me so much pleasure?
Thus the CIA's mission was to monitor, analyze, report, and sometimes launch an operation whose purpose was to stop the Soviets from doing something.
Ever since Ofcom announced its ruling allowing Everything Everywhere to go ahead with its early 4G plan, Vodafone and O2 have been muttering darkly about doing something to stop it.
"It's just talk until they start doing something about it and stop lying about what really happened, " Serpico said.
Most attempts to trap positrons more efficiently have involved doing something to them to try and stop them from getting back to the trap's entrance.
The mayor and police also cite "stop and frisk" as a deterrent in which officers stop, question and sometimes pat down people they think might be doing something criminal, even if the suspicions don't meet the probable-cause standard for an arrest.
Republicans in Congress need to stop trying to refight the battles of the past few years, and finally start doing something to actually help the middle class get ahead.
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Another often-used argument was that what we were proposing would not stop all criminals from securing or using firearms, and therefore it was not something worth doing.
Stop-and-frisk the practice of stopping, questioning and sometimes patting down people seen as doing something questionable but not necessarily meriting arrest has become a flashpoint as the stops rose dramatically in the last decade, to nearly 700, 000 in 2011.
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