Sentence examples for before the hostilities from inspiring English sources

The Battle of Agincourt might not have been won by the English were it not for heavy rain before the hostilities began.

Before the hostilities began, the miners had been bamboozled into creating the coal stockpile the government needed to ride out the big confrontation.

The shrine of the revered Shiite figure, Hojr Ibn Oday — also known as Hajar Ben Adi al-Kundi — in the Damascus suburb of Adra was a popular pilgrimage site before the hostilities mostly ended religious tourism in Syria.

The United States and the European Union say this constitutes a breach of the cease-fire agreement, which called for all sides to withdraw to the positions they held before the hostilities began.

Interethnic romantic relationships, common enough before the hostilities, had become nearly unthinkable, although Mr. Spicer and Ms. Mijanovic (his name is pronounced KRE-shi-meer SHPIT-zer; hers, Mar-YAN-a Mee-YAN-o-vich) said that in their circles at home, casual relations were not quite so fraught.

Signed JJ Moore". The message was sent via special forces to the Government Communications Headquarters on 14 June 1982 - six days before the hostilities officially ceased.

Controlled by his great-grandmother Brunhild, he reigned only a matter of weeks before the hostility of the Austrasian nobility, led by Arnulf of Metz and Pippin I, to Brunhild led to his overthrow and the reunification of the Frankish lands under Chlotar II.

Short of toppling Hamas -- which would be the ideal outcome, Israel must insist on the following measures before ending the hostilities aimed at Hamas' leadership, infrastructure and military establishment.

Under section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, these three Public Order Act offences are treated as religiously aggravated if, at the time of the offence or immediately before, the offender displays hostility towards the victim based on the victim's membership (or presumed membership) of a religious group.

In 1782, after the end of most hostilities but before the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Nicola wrote the Newburgh letter, which was received coldly by Washington.

In this period of pre-Leveson nerves, it is no more than a skirmish before the real hostilities.