cease-fire

How To Use cease-fire In A Sentence

• The temporary cease-fire agreement does not preclude possible retaliatory attacks later.
• When a main element is dependence on a unilaterally declared temporary cease-fire by one of the key violent actors on the scene – which has not been defeated and which can rescind the cease-fire at any time – how can it be termed a “success”, nevermind a “victory”? Matthew Yglesias » “Winning” The War
• Against this background, an unprecedented number of acts of violence broke out along the cease-fire line beginning on 5 August 1965.
• So unless a cease-fire is secured, the combatants on both sides will hold sway.
• Speaking after a meeting Monday with government and UNITA officials, Beye said such violations of the year-old cease-fire were "inacceptable" and came "at exactly the most inappropriate moment of the peace process. ANC Daily News Briefing
• After the cease-fire, the situation in the capital got better.
• Nobody really expected that the announcement of a unilateral cease-fire would bring an immediate end to the fighting.
• No sooner has a cease-fire been signed than it is broken, and Big Brother in either case exhorts the citizens, known as proles, to make ever greater sacrifices, especially their liberty.
• They negotiated a cease-fire unknown to officials and against the express wishes of the civilian neocons in charge of the Pentagon.
• It seems that the planes deliberately violated the cease-fire agreement.