The scanner will stop on an active frequency strong enough to break the radio's squelch setting and resume scanning other frequencies when that activity ceases.

For example, brain death, as practiced in medical science, defines death as a point in time at which brain activity ceases.

The activity of the activator generally increases with temperature, up to a certain value where activity ceases, either due to thermal decomposition or excessive volatilization.

Then activity ceases completely for several years.

All power stations that have not invested in technology to cut their emissions must then cease operation.

Public transit agencies that operate on the sea or on surface streets and highways will continue to operate but may cease operation on short notice.

In a few instances, however, mills were forced to cease operation.

It was the last of the eight plants to permanently cease operation.

The municipal authorities ordered him to cease operation.

Normally, hemiplegia and other associated symptoms cease completely with sleep, but they may recur upon waking.

If the borrower defaults on the loan, this income flow will cease completely.

After several months the positive notes began to outnumber the negative ones, although the negative ones never ceased completely.

By the end of the following year production of horse-drawn fire apparatus ceased completely.

Mining at the site then ceased completely in 1914.

Though they didn't cease entirely, they eased up just enough for me to function.

Eventually the electricity shuts off and all public services falter, then eventually cease entirely.

Theatrical activity did not cease entirely; rather, actors staged clandestine performances, often at the private houses of sympathetic citizens.

After the 16th century, it ceased entirely to be used.

While the commemoratives of these decades continued to be issued predominantly in precious metals, their use as circulating currency became scarce or ceased entirely.

The government said that both sides had told their fighters on the ground to cease hostilities.

Where evenly matched adversaries decide that the conflict has resulted in a stalemate, they may cease hostilities to avoid further loss of life and property.

In this regard all parties were urged to cease hostilities and observe a ceasefire.

They offered to cease hostilities in exchange for provisions.

It reaffirmed previous calls to the parties to cease hostilities that could lead to a further escalation of tensions, and the need for an urgent ceasefire.

Our current access to the single market would cease immediately after two years and our trade agreements with 53 countries around the world would lapse.

Any outside interference in the country had to cease immediately.

Such activities, if they are continuing, should cease immediately.

These footsteps cease immediately once someone living enters any location.

He trusts that they will now cease immediately.

Other similar papers with larger collectives tended to cease publication after a relatively short time.

In early 2013, after over 25 years in publication, the difficult decision was made to cease publication of the magazine.

Rand was unable to sustain this schedule either, and announced at the end of 1975 that the newsletter would cease publication.

It failed to notify subscribers that the magazine would cease publication and those subscribers who had paid for their magazines in advance did not have their money refunded.

This first incarnation of the magazine ceased publication in 1936.