Sentence examples for be on ceasefire from inspiring English sources

Any member of a terror group recognised to be on ceasefire, and who committed an offence in the UK before April 10 1998, qualified.

The IRA never admitted involvement and was supposed to be on ceasefire at the time.

In the Kurdish Workers Partyy case a terrorist organisation which was on ceasefire was refused deproscription because it was said to "retain the capacity for terrorism".

The new Labour government soon gave up and imposed direct rule from London.This time, the paramilitaries on both sides are on ceasefire and pledged to the agreement signed on Good Friday.

Seán Hartnett (not his real name), who has just published a book about his part in the secret counterterrorism war, said republicans were "still gathering intelligence on the security forces in the early 2000s despite being on ceasefire, so we did the same on them".

The only other armed group remaining from the milieu is the Official IRA, which has been on ceasefire since 1972 (feuds and allegations of criminal activity notwithstanding) and is itself now in talks about decommissioning what wags on the streets of Belfast have long referred to as its "rusty guns".

In line with the British and Irish governments' proposals after the Weston Park talks in July, the secretary of state also confirmed that there would be an amnesty for paramilitaries on the run, for offences committed before the Good Friday agreement was signed, if their organisations were on ceasefire.

"We've been very clear that when it comes to the UVF, we firmly believe that they are not on ceasefire," the federation's chairman, Terry Spence, said.

Organized by the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, the response is part of a new effort to fight gun violence in Crown Heights called Save our Streets, or S.O.S., that is modeled on CeaseFire, the antigun violence program developed at the University of Illinois in the 1990s.

But while the IMC stated that the murder of Moffett – who had been a leading member of the UVF, as well as the Red Hand Commando – was extremely serious, it decided not to recommend that the Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Paterson, "re-categorised" the UVF as a group that is not on ceasefire.

Loyalist terror groups, particularly the UVF, have remained active despite being officially on ceasefire.