Sentence examples for began hostilities from inspiring English sources
This was borne in on a suburban friend of ours shortly after Russia and Germany began hostilities.
1. How Caesar and Antony began hostilities against each other (chaps. 1‑14).
Hirohito told Kido to "quickly control the situation" because "the Soviet Union has declared war and today began hostilities against us".
Savarkar allegedly retorted that only a fool would attempt to resist the British without being fortified by animal protein.The meeting is said to have begun hostilities between the two young Indian nationalists; whether or not the story is apocryphal, there were real reasons for antipathy.
In Korea and Vietnam we intervened after the enemy had begun hostilities.
It allows Obama in effect to begin hostilities against an enemy in Syria, relying on the war declarations passed with the authorizations to use military force in 2001 and 2002 that targeted al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
He began the hostility against populist leaders in Latin America, declaring a partial embargo on Cuba in 1960 and laying the groundwork for the Bay of Pigs.
Unita began retaliating and hostilities grew.
Thereupon full-scale hostilities began between the two nations.
The ceasefire was announced amid a rapidly climbing death toll since hostilities began on 8 July.
