Sentence examples for ceasefire terms from inspiring English sources

It is not well known that the British continued to offer ceasefire terms until 1 June.

Hamas, the Islamist movement that has ruled Gaza for seven years, prolonged the war needlessly, hoping international outrage would force Israel to offer better ceasefire terms.

Though France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schröder said this week that such a step was essential, the British and Americans insist that Iraq's violation of the 1991 UN ceasefire terms is all the authority they need for military action.

When Hunt realised that the game was up, he took down a white net curtain, wrapped it round an umbrella as an improvised white flag and sent an aide out to discuss ceasefire terms.

Israel killed over 170 Gazans for the loss of six of its own people but then, under mediating pressure from the United States and Egypt, agreed to ceasefire terms that provided for all of Gaza's crossings into Egypt and Israel to be opened.

According to the UN, more than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed during the fighting, three-quarters of them civilians, against 64 Israeli soldiers, two civilians and a Thai worker.For its part, Israel notes that after three weeks of fighting on land, Hamas has accepted ceasefire terms that are close to what Egypt first suggested, and Hamas refused, before the Israeli ground assault began.

Some Yemeni commentators, meanwhile, worry that a mooted ceasefire, whose terms Mr Houthi had apparently agreed on, could be postponed by his as-yet-unconfirmed demise.

"The question now is whether there is any space to revive this ceasefire, in terms of engaging the Russians and Assad, but also managing our own expectations with regard to the removal of Assad," said Barnes-Dacey.

"I'm concerned because the logic of this operation is if we hurt them hard enough they will cry uncle and they will agree to a new ceasefire on terms acceptable to us," he said.

"The way for them to foil this strategy is for them simply to refuse to accept a ceasefire on terms acceptable to us, no matter how much pain we're inflicting.

A senior Russian general has revived fears of a new Cold War by threatening Poland with a possible nuclear strike, as the President of Georgia bowed to the inevitable and signed a ceasefire the terms of which were dictated by Moscow.