Sentence examples for bring about a ceasefire from inspiring English sources

Pakistan's change of heart - if sustained - could open up several new tracks in the peace process, bring about a ceasefire with the Taliban, encourage a wider regional settlement and improve Islamabad's own fraught relations with Washington.

His objective was to ultimately bring about a ceasefire between the two sides, and although a ceasefire was officially put in place in April, it was never adhered to by either side, with violence only increasing since then.

Regional leaders, the African Union and the UN struggled to bring about a ceasefire.

Washington has said it is willing to "leverage" its relationships in the region to bring about a ceasefire.

The deaths of more than 30 Palestinians, mostly children, by shells near a UN school, added urgency to diplomacy seeking to bring about a ceasefire.

The Minsk accords were signed in 2014 and 2015 to guide a peace process in eastern Ukraine but have failed to bring about a ceasefire.

WITH the five-day aerial battle between Israel and Hamas poised to escalate into all-out ground war, the unlikely figure of Egypt's Islamist president, Muhammad Morsi, is emerging in Israeli minds as the one regional leader who can bring about a credible ceasefire.

The one party that seems to be doing everything to bring about a desired ceasefire is U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and not the Iranian side, unfortunately.

It was supposed to bring about a nationwide ceasefire, improved humanitarian aid access, and a joint U.S.-Russian effort against jihadist groups including Islamic State and the Nusra Front, long al Qaeda's Syrian wing.

Egypt is leading intensifying diplomatic activity to bring about a six-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as well as smaller factions such as Islamic Jihad which have been firing rockets across the border.

It was the latest in a series of attempts to broker local ceasefires in an effort to bring about a nationwide halt to the fighting.