The phrase "actual hostilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to real or ongoing conflicts, particularly in a military or political context.
Example: "The ceasefire was declared, but there were still concerns about the potential for actual hostilities to resume."
Alternatives: "real combat" or "genuine conflict".
CBS news reported that a senior member of President Barack Obama's administration had played down any prospect of actual hostilities.
The threat of actual hostilities seems remote — neither China nor the U.S. is inclined to seek a costly conflict over Taiwan, for instance — but China's feeling of encirclement is real and worth noting.
Its research shows that negative sentiments in Russian-language media (which tend to comprise an echo chamber for the Kremlin) have steadily risen, increasing tenfold in the last two-plus years, well before the actual hostilities started.
After this was over, the Peloponnesian war beginning to break out in full tide, he advised the people to send help to the Corcyraeans, who were attacked by the Corinthians, and to secure to themselves an island possessed of great naval resources, since the Peloponnesians were already all but in actual hostilities against them.
In these cases cyberattacks were launched by all belligerents before the actual armed conflicts began, and cyberattacks continued long after the shooting stopped, yet it cannot be claimed that the cyberattacks launched before the start of actual hostilities caused the conflicts.
Although far from the scene of actual hostilities, his command was by no means an unimportant one.
She was active in the National Woman Suffrage Association (after 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Association [NAWSA]), but her energy, ambition, and attractiveness, as well as her interest in reforms other than suffrage, aroused suspicion if not actual hostility on the part of Susan B. Anthony.
But the more we disparage cooperative relations, the greater the actual hostility we will encounter". In the end, Heymann makes a persuasive argument for just the kind of multilateral approach to fighting terrorism for which the Bush administration has shown utter disdain.
The cynical appropriation of women's right to self-defense by Stand Your Ground supporters masks the law's actual hostility towards women's use of force, including its continued stigmatization of women who fight back.
"Our best estimate, and it's only an estimate," he said, "is that the declines that we've seen are not going to immediately snap back, if and when the actual physical hostilities are finished.
He said the actual outbreak of hostilities had changed little, since the diplomatic run-up to the war had already unsettled the office leasing market.
