cease-fire

How To Use cease-fire In A Sentence

• 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
• On 23 January 1973 Kissinger and the chief North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho, initialled a cease-fire agreement in Paris.
• The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced
• She called the cease-fire an "important step forward" for the country. NYT > Home Page
• MOHAMAD CHATAH, ADVISER TO LEBANESE P.M.: The Lebanese government and the Lebanese people who are taking the brunt of this crazy war, priority is to stop this war and to stop it in a way that makes sense, in a way that makes it a lasting cease-fire and a cease - fire that's penned on a resolution to the elements that brought this conflict about. CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006
• His mission is only to arrange a cease-fire so that the President may pull his army out of the cities in triumph without having offered any concessions to them.
• We concluded a cease-fire
• And the question we're asking is, was the United States right to balk at immediate cease-fire in the Middle East, the U.S. being one of the few countries to stand against the idea of ceasing hostilities? CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006
• We used to hear news of the cease-fire on the car radio, but now we are isolated from the world.
• The tanks cease-fire and we file through a breach in the outer wall.