hostilities

How To Use hostilities In A Sentence

• There would be a flurry of coding and decoding activity in time of war, but with the coming of peace, cryptographic knowledge and skills would atrophy and have to be relearned again at the next outbreak of hostilities.
• The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
• Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• No consideration was given to the fact that most Apache hostilities were self-defense or retaliation, and that they'd first been raided by the New Mexicans.
• Now a time has come when the country, in order to seek the final riddance from terrorism, will have to throw aside its mutual differences and hostilities and rise as a single united force.
• Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.
• But this year's spring optimism may have been boosted by an early conclusion to hostilities.
• After a week of silence the fight was rescheduled and the hostilities between the two continued.
• The opportunity presented itself in 1866 with the outbreak of hostilities between Austria and Prussia.
• Any hostilities could result in retaliation and further embroil U.N. troops in fighting.