Unlike a lot of self-made people, Hays has never ceased to sympathize with ordinary people.

FORBES: An American original

The man's energies were prodigious, and his ability to work under pressure never ceased to amaze me.

FORBES: Happy Capitalist Warrior

It was shot through and through and tattered, but it never ceased to wave in the wind.

CNN: Kerry: We are here to make America stronger

Whereas his companion remained completely immobile for hours on end, he never ceased circling her, tirelessly filming her.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

Yasser Arafat, engineer and father of the Palestinian national project, never let go even for a second, and never ceased struggling for it.

BBC: NEWS | Middle East | World press reflects on Arafat legacy

He was a celebrity who never ceased to be a fan.

ECONOMIST: Kenneth Tynan

Kazan, the author argues, never ceased to be a radical.

ECONOMIST: American film: Big little man | The

Javier was an ultra-conservative, pro-Franco follower of the Opus Dei, and he never ceased to scandalize me with his political opinions, which I strained to understand in my developing Spanish.

WSJ: Escabeche: A Seafood Dish for the Fish-Phobe

As a largely devout Muslim nation, Turkey never ceased to produce charismatic religious leaders, but they had to adapt to the realities of a secular republic or else face prison or exile.

ECONOMIST: The Turkish model: A hard act to follow | The

The resumed talks with Mr Arafat's men will therefore be in the nature of a holding operation for the next two or three months, these sources maintain, while the negotiation with Syria, which never ceased despite its formal suspension, resolves itself one way or the other.

ECONOMIST: Middle East peacemaking reawakens

The paper has never sold in enormous numbers - and for 10 years from 1981, it ceased publication for lack of resources.

BBC: Charlie Hebdo and its place in French journalism