What is "cease-fire"

Usage examples of "cease-fire".

Iraq has been in flagrant violation of the terms of the cease-fire since at least October 1998, when it threw out the U.

All this happened during the planned and agreed-on cease-fire for Tet, the Vietnamese New Year.

I to construe that my presence means the Race extends the same cease-fire to Great Britain as to my cobelligerents who sit at this table with me?

He had no idea where Grant was, had tried to reach him through the lines in the rear, as he had before, but there was no reply, and without a cease-fire, without the entire Federal line accepting a truce, there could be a new assault at any time.

On one leave after the cease-fire he was hunting in Gerning and came across a cottage in the forest.

Security Council Resolution 687, the cease-fire resolution, which codified the post-Gulf War U.

They were filled with news stories about the recently declared war between Albania and Macedonia, the unraveling of the Dayton Peace Accords and the cease-fire in Kosovo, and the expansion of German and Russian peacekeeping forces in the Balkans to try to maintain order, on the heels of a rapid American withdrawal from the region.

And to prevent that destabilization, the Imperial Navy will move into Saginaw and impose a cease-fire, under the terms of which the Empire will recognize the Council as the de facto legitimate government of Prism.

The old bastard had signed a cease-fire with Hitler and withdrawn from any hostilities against the Axis powers, suddenly freeing up the Nazi war machine to have another try at Great Britain.

He said, “We have learned that you scaly devils are seriously considering cease-fires without time limits for discussion of your withdrawal from the territory of the peace-loving Soviet Union and other states.

There's always a little slippage in cease-fires, such as we encountered in Vietnam.

As it was, there were temporary cease-fires in his angry dialogue with a God in Whom he did not believe.

Washington intended to take the matter to the Security Council, and it expected to be able to get a resolution condemning the Iraqi actions as a "material breach" of the cease-fire, thereby justifying the use of military force.

An enforced cease-fire and cooling-off period was definitely a good idea.

For if the balance tips toward Israel the UN Security Council may well impose a speedy cease-fire, and Israel needs facts on the ground to trade off for an Egyptian withdrawal.