How To Use Cease-fire In A Sentence
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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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On 23 January 1973 Kissinger and the chief North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho, initialled a cease-fire agreement in Paris.
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The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced
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She called the cease-fire an "important step forward" for the country.
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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
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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.
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We concluded a cease-fire
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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
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We used to hear news of the cease-fire on the car radio, but now we are isolated from the world.
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The tanks cease-fire and we file through a breach in the outer wall.
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To achieve that goal, I call upon all parties to agree to an immediate cease-fire.
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The U.S. launched the missiles after concluding early Saturday that "the regime had no intention of complying with their so-called cease-fire announcement," a senior defense official said.
Libyan Raids Show Obama Doctrine in Action
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It puts the main emphasis on a cease-fire to end the current violence followed by negotiations.
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The restoration team has repaired over 80 percent of the roofs since the cease-fire in 1992.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Tzipi Livni to Newsweek: 'Israel Is Not Going to Show Restraint'
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The incident ruptures a recent and fragile cease-fire.
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The apparent cease-fire between the two longtime rivals could face an immediate test.
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In regions like the Basque Country and Navarre, both in the north of Spain, ETA's cease-fire could have a much greater impact on the voting than in the rest of the country.
Araceli Guede: First Spanish General Election Without ETA's Terrorism
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The rest of you in Congress, put down your cudgels of sincerity and declare a cease-fire with the public.
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MANN: Now, for the record, Hamas is observing what it calls a cease-fire, but it refuses to renounce violence.
CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2006
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Livni: I don't like the term cease-fire since it looks like an agreement between two legitimate sides.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Tzipi Livni to Newsweek: 'Israel Is Not Going to Show Restraint'
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Should we not consider a five-or ten-year cease-fire in our activities?
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We were stunned when a messenger Jeep drove me to the rear to hear the cease-fire order read aloud.
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By the time the UN imposed a cease-fire, India held two-thirds, including the Vale of Kashmir, and Pakistan one third of the beautiful mountain state.
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They do have quite a track record in brokering cease-fires, accords and agreements.
Was it the EU's fault?
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This would include the acceptance of a two-state solution, recognition of Israel, and a long-term cease-fire by Hamas if reciprocated by Israel.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
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I expected the cease-fire to last.
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The Israelis are trying to show what they describe as restraint on the ground to test Arafat to see if, in fact, he can use his powers of persuasion, not only within the Palestinian movement that he is at the top of but through all of the other factions that he doesn't have necessary control over but can use his voice to speak to to bring what has not happened in so many months there -- a cease-fire, an end of violence between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2001
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Gadhafi's forces toward Benghazi, and the attacks against civilian populace in both Benghazi and Misrata, meant "the regime had no intention of complying with their so-called cease-fire announcement," a senior defense official said.
Allied Forces Attack Libya
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But on Monday, the Union of Communities in Kurdistan, a group that shares a common leader with the PKK and often speaks on its behalf, sought to distance itself from the attack, which took place earlier on the day the PKK's four-month unilateral cease-fire had been due to expire.
PKK Denies Role in Istanbul Attack
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Pakistan must have seriously thought over her unilateral offer of cease-fire.
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The agreement provided for a cease-fire.
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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
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Against this background, an unprecedented number of acts of violence broke out along the cease-fire line beginning on 5 August 1965.
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So unless a cease-fire is secured, the combatants on both sides will hold sway.
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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
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After the cease-fire, the situation in the capital got better.
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Nobody really expected that the announcement of a unilateral cease-fire would bring an immediate end to the fighting.
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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.
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They negotiated a cease-fire unknown to officials and against the express wishes of the civilian neocons in charge of the Pentagon.
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It seems that the planes deliberately violated the cease-fire agreement.
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Heavy fighting erupted there today after a two-day cease-fire.
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Prior to the recent cease-fire, the PKK had stepped up attacks after their jailed leader, Abdullah Ö calan, said he was calling off talks with Turkey's government because he said Ankara's stated goal of improving conditions for Turkey's large Kurdish minority wasn't going anywhere.
Attack on Minibus Kills 10 in Turkey
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On Friday, a cease-fire was announced - and immediately violated by US forces - to allow terrified women and children to flee on foot from their homes in the embattled city.
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The troops pulled out after the cease-fire
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UN peacekeepers would be deployed to patrol a cease-fire and assist in demilitarization and demobilization as well as to help provide a secure environment, so that exiled Tutsi could return.
Bystanders to Genocide
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The temporary cease-fire agreement does not preclude possible retaliatory attacks later.
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ETA Monday declared what it calls a permanent cease-fire that it says can be internationally verified.
Spain's PM Rejects ETA Cease-Fire
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A British stockade stood at the border of the two neighborhoods, patrols leaving at regular intervals despite a recently declared cease-fire.
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After the cease-fire,[sentence dictionary] the situation in the capital got better.
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If a disarmament and the group's dissolution were fully implemented, ETA's move—which it referred to as a "definitive" halt to armed activity, rather than a cease-fire—would represent a milestone in Spanish history.
Basque Separatists Vow Again to End Violence
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The lull is a distant memory and a permanent cease-fire a distant dream for Gaza.
CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2009
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Surrender, compromise with the regime, or a cease-fire means abandoning the path ordained by God and signifies an abrogation of the faith.
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The incident ruptures a recent and fragile cease-fire.
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MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even as cease-fire negotiations continued in Georgia's capital, Moscow's tanks were still trowelling (ph) the western front.
CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008
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This chorus of entirely predictable widespread condemnation is the primary reason why no cease-fire will endure.
The Palestinian's tactics and "proportionality"
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The agreement provided for a cease-fire.
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The artillery attack was a violation of the unilateral cease-fire announced by the LTTE themselves to allow civilians to move out of the embattled zone, the statement said.
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Peacekeeping operations are designed to monitor and facilitate implementation of existing truces or cease-fires and support diplomatic efforts to reach long-term political settlements.
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The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said the conflict is likely to continue for what he called the foreseeable future, despite the cease-fire.
CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2006
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Foster Dulles, exhausted and unwell, heatedly reminded Stassen that “it was the British and French who had just vetoed the proposal for a cease-fire.”
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