Sentence examples for ceasefire order from inspiring English sources

The hundreds of armed relatives around the school ignored the ceasefire order.

Burmese troops attacked rebel positions in north-east Kachin yesterday despite a ceasefire order from the President and an invitation to the insurgents to take part in peace talks.

A tenuous possibility is that the military has not gone on the offensive because of the ceasefire order, although a recent statement from the defence headquarters said that a "highly coordinated air bombardment is already yielding required results in the mission to repel the unwarranted attacks on citizens" in the north-east.

A ceasefire order reached Crummel on 2 November, upon which he and his men returned to Batavia after stationing a contingent of 50 men at Cadouwang.

On 5 May 1945, she received the ceasefire order, and on 22 May, the British cruisers and arrived to take over Nürnberg.

The army did not even honour a ceasefire ordered by its supreme commander, President Gloria Arroyo, in honour of the Muslim holiday Eid Al Adha, but their actions have been paying dividends.

What is required is a broad agreement on the balance between rural development and land redistribution, with the details to be implemented through the normal democratic process.As the talks in Havana began, the FARC's chief negotiator, Iván Márquez, announced a unilateral ceasefire, ordering all guerrilla units to refrain from attacks and acts of sabotage for two months.

We urge all concerned – Russia, the pro-Russian separatists, and Ukraine – to support an immediate ceasefire in order to ensure safe and unfettered access to the crash site for international investigators and in order to facilitate the recovery of remains.

The foreign secretaries of France and Great Britain flew to Sri Lanka, where they pleaded with the government to call a ceasefire in order to rescue the civilians who were still trapped.

He was thus willing to delay a ceasefire in order to win victory in this wider struggle, of which he saw Hezbollah as a key combatant, and Israel as one of "us".

Hours after Saturday's bomb attack, the PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire in order not to endanger "fair and just elections" in November, an offer that was promptly swept aside by the government in Ankara as Turkish fighter jets pounded PKK positions.