How To Use Armistice In A Sentence
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The treaty terms dissipated public elation in the days following the Armistice, when hopes that Allied victory in “the war to end all wars” would result in eternal peace.
Between War and Peace
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In early 1965 President Lyndon Johnson discussed the growing problem in Vietnam with Eisenhower, and the general remarked that he had ended the war in Korea by having the word passed through three different channels “telling the Chinese that they must agree to an armistice quickly, since he had decided to remove the restrictions of area and weapons if the war had to be continued.”
Between War and Peace
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In 1919 northern Persia was occupied by the British General Edmund Ironside to enforce the Turkish Armistice conditions and assist General Malleson contain Boshevik influences in the north.
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The "doughboy shavetail", a hero before the armistice, or the aviator who held the stage until November eleventh, once he put on his serge suit and went back to selling insurance or keeping books, became a nodding acquaintance, sometimes not even that.
The Log-Cabin Lady
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Media coverage exceeded any news event in history, including the armistice that ended World War I in 1918.
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Looking for possible violations of the armistice is a favorite pastime of both sides here.
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006
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An armistice is a cessation; it leaves to a peace agreement the actual setting of borders and boundaries.
Matthew Yglesias » Ehud Barak: Peace or Apartheid
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This was ominous; it brought about an armistice; that is, a cessation of hostilities in the war of words against Gorle and his hippophagous designs.
The Siege of Kimberley
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We urgently reaffirm our 2003 call for the prompt reconvening of talks with North Korea leading to a non-aggression pact between North Korea and the United States, renouncement of pre-emptive attack and negotiation of a peace treaty replacing the present Armistice Treaty of 1953 and the establishment and exchange of liaison offices between the United States and North Korea as a sign of good faith.
National Council of Churches
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On November 10, House cabled Wilson, “You have a right to assume that the two great features of the armistice are the defeat of German military imperialism and the acceptance by the Allied Powers of the kind of peace the world has longed for.”
How Wars end
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Suspicious of royalist strength and opposing the armistice made with Prussia, the Communards wanted to continue the war and were determined that France should regain the principles of the First Republic.
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For these reasons, it was hard for many to comprehend that such an armistice could ever take place.
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A two-week armistice has been declared between the rival factions.
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Since the 1953 armistice the two sides have never signed a peace treaty.
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He claims that in most respects the terms of the armistice provided the foundations of those of the peace treaty.
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Except this man who turned up here in George's own camp -- and in the village, two months ago, but whom I never saw till this week -- _this week_ -- Armistice Day -- John Dempsey.
Harvest
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The Allies, however, had no intention of letting the armistice arrangements slide by default into a full-blown peace.
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News of the armistice had reached the troops but the actual order to cease fire was still on the way to the front.
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“If Israel accepts the maximist Palestinian proposals: a state on the 1967 armistice lines, removes all Jews from the west bank, and agrees to have east Jereusalem as the capitol of a palestinian state; Hamas and the 1.5 million Gazans it represents will still want to destroy Israel and Hamas would still wage war against Israel.”
Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements
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The signing of the Armistice at Versailles occurred before the Regiment could cross the Atlantic, so it reassumed its border patrol mission.
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His engagement with classicism preceded not only the Armistice but the start of the war in 1914 (if he ever really disengaged) and was far more motivated by his disgust with the popularizing of Cubism by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger (the latter a featured "classicist" in the exhibition) than by any social or political goals.
In the Great War's Wake
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In 1920, another baleful Armistice Day was looming.
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And didn't prevent Jacobson and Pinter from becoming chummy after Pinter declared armistice, regretting the "froideur" between them.
Gripes of Wrath: James Wolcott
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Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card.
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Aided by South Korean activists, they could begin moving north toward the Yalu River border with China or south to the Demilitarized Zone DMZ, which has divided North from South since the 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement.
'The Great Successor'
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The north responded to the news by threatening to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
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The first might be regarded as the armistice: this is when the fighting was brought to a halt, and provisional arrangements were made about the shape of the post-bellum order.
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The Germans had signed an armistice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Armistice ceremony and a march past led by veterans from the Falklands conflict in 1982 will be attended by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other senior members of the Royal Family.
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Lenin immediately asked the German High Command for an armistice, and in December both sides met to discuss peace terms at Brest-Litovsk.
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Such a development would end the 1953 armistice agreement and accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the peninsula.
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One is an armistice agreement that will provide a situation of nonbelligerency.
'A Deep Friendship'
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It asks that the repatriates be turned over to the commission after the armistice.
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Both sides agreed to an armistice to bury the dead and collect the wounded.
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The first might be regarded as the armistice: this is when the fighting was brought to a halt, and provisional arrangements were made about the shape of the post-bellum order.
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As we advanced on the village of Guiry a runner came up and told us that the Armistice would be signed at eleven o'clock that day, November 11.
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French armies stormed to victory in Spain and Savoy, and by the end of 1794, tired of continual war, the Austrians signed an armistice.
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Badoglio soon dissolved the National Fascist Party and opened secret negotiations with the Allies for an armistice.
Wild Bill Donovan
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The word armistice being beyond the range of their vocabulary, they call it "l'amnistie," and imagine that the question is whether or not King William is ready to grant Paris an amnesty.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
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À l'approche des Allemands et avec la signature à Rethondes de la convention d'armistice franco-allemande le 22 juin 1940, les Rochelais sabotent ou détruisent de nombreuses installations afin qu'elles ne tombent pas aux mains de l'occupant.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Suspicious of royalist strength and opposing the armistice made with Prussia, the Communards wanted to continue the war and were determined that France should regain the principles of the First Republic.
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The co-signatories, and their representatives, were reduced to the role of spectators in the armistice's application.
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Violation of the terms of an armistice by individuals is punishable as a war crime.
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In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
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The proposal was, as I have said, a daring one, for an armistice is more than a cease-fire; an armistice, in the accepted meaning of the word, is in effect a preliminary to peace.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1950 - Presentation Speech
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While Wilson was writing the polite first draft of his reply on October 7, for example, a Republican senator was declaring to his colleagues: The only condition of an armistice ought to be an allied victory; unconditional surrender of our enemies.
How Wars end
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In March 1940, he led the delegation that negotiated with Molotov for an armistice and peace settlement.
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These efforts resulted in armistice agreements between the new state of Israel and four of its Arab neighbours:
Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949
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There were no bullets and the explosions were made by blowing up a mixture of peat and cork, but the anxiety and tension were all too real more than 85 years after the Armistice.
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Agesilaus took a counter oath: without fraud or covin to observe the armistice during the three months7 necessary to that transaction.
Agesilaus
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The end of this essay segues to the second essay, Armistice Day 2 0 0 5, which at its end segues to the third essay, War Peace And Arms Control In The Bronze Age, all with links to additional resources.
BLOODSHED TRILOGY
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In September 1943, when the Italians signed an armistice, he escaped and reached safety in Switzerland.
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November 1918 was an armistice, but the war didn't end officially until the peace treaty in June 1919.
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Hard-liners on both sides have been stepping up calls to abandon the armistice.
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North and South Korea remain in a state of armistice with no peace agreement signed at the end of the war.
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The fighting lasted until July 27 1953 when an armistice was signed.
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To-day is Armistice Day, the day when we remember those who have fallen in battle defending our great Republic.
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It was Armistice Day, when two minutes' silence is observed in remembrance of the dead in the first world war.
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This was a strategic reality that had nowhere been intimated during the armistice of 1989-91.
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If I may put my point of view-which may be altogether wrong-the chief cause which now, two years after the armistice, makes the condition of Europe worse in many phases than it was at the time of the armistice, is due to two or three causes.
After War, Peace Complications, From the Viewpoint of Europe
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Immediately after the armistice was signed an election in Paris returned a hard right government.
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In an age when so much else has descended into degeneracy, the observance of both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday remains as punctilious as ever.
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In declaring the national holiday Armistice Day, Congress said it was to be "a day dedicated to the cause of world peace.
Dave Lindorff: Obama's War and Remembrance Day
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If Israel accepts the maximist Palestinian proposals: a state on the 1967 armistice lines, removes all Jews from the west bank, and agrees to have east Jereusalem as the capitol of a palestinian state; Hamas and the 1.5 million Gazans it represents will still want to destroy Israel and Hamas would still wage war against Israel.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements
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In his work, which has just gone on sale in Italy, Tornielli explains that the “Führer” was livid after the signing of the armistice between the Badoglio government and the Allies on Sept. 8, 1943, and ordered the SS to destroy the Holy See with “blood and fire.”
Giving God a bad name « BuzzMachine
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What if the armistice has been signed, and we lay down our arms?
Christianity Today
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A local armistice suspends operations between certain portions of the belligerent forces or within a designated district of the theater of operations.
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Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
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In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
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Unfortunately, the war, which resulted in an armistice and not a peace treaty, was not the end of the problem.
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Wikipedia even claims that North Korea actually withdrew from the Armistice agreement in 2009 [citation needed], but even if they didn’t, technically armistice is only a temporary cessation of fighting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
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Yet, at the end, he did facilitate acceptance of the kaiser's abdication, the establishment of the Weimar Republic, and the armistice, and he remained a hero.
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The insurgents take advantage of darkness to conduct provocations during armistices or when negotiations are underway.
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Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products.
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President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice, but this had been turned down by the rebel leader.
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Stage three of the cannabis Armistice Tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 11 and will cover the entire country before a hikoi to Parliament on Armistice Day, November 11.
NZ On Screen
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Exactly 85 years ago the armistice was signed ending at the end of the Great War, the bloodiest conflict in history.
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Pétain made the most of this emotion to restore order quickly and to secure peace through the armistice.
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By the time the armistice was signed in November 1918 wireless had changed almost beyond recognition.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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And Agesilaus took a counter oath: without fraud or covin to observe the armistice during the three months (7) necessary to that transaction.
Agesilaus
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The entente was engaged in continual fierce fighting until the Armistice.
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Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries.
David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
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He was influential in promoting the armistice agreement for Angola and independence for East Timor from Indonesia.
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A railroad car - the wagon-lit in which a German delegation signed the WWI armistice on November 11, 1918, and in which a French delegation signed the surrender of France to the Third Reich on June 21, 1940.
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An armistice was signed at Compiègne in November 1918; fighting at once stopped.
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In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
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À l'approche des Allemands et avec la signature à Rethondes de la convention d'armistice franco-allemande le 22 juin 1940, les Rochelais sabotent ou détruisent de nombreuses installations afin qu'elles ne tombent pas aux mains de l'occupant.
Archive 2009-04-01
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I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career -- but the Armistice intervened!
Secret Adversary
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It is no less patriotic to issue just criticism than it is to utter just praise and, in my reckoning, rather more constructive than to adopt a ‘my country, right or wrong’ attitude, even on Armistice Day.
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After landing in Normandy he served as a regimental medical officer until the armistice.
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This change was occasioned by the opening of armistice talks, nominally between the opposing commanders-in-chief.
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The battle for civilisation is not going to end with an armistice or some form of negotiated settlement.