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12 In spite of its prestigious sponsorship, the company ceased operations in 1996.
Many of the high packhorse routes had ceased to be used for the transportation of goods, but these old “rights of way” for foot and bridle traffic were now transformed into an extensive network of marked and mapped routes ideal for recreational walkers and hikers.
A heroic uprising in 1943, led by poorly armed Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, lasted a month until Nazi reinforcements annihilated it and reported back to Germany that “Warsaw’s Jewish quarter has ceased to exist.”
"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."
White ethnics have ceased to be the dominant force in urban life.