Sentence examples for close to a ceasefire from inspiring English sources
Few have cash, and their savings are exhausted.Nor has Mr Sharon's declaration of an end to this "stage" of military action brought about anything close to a ceasefire.
We're probably close to a ceasefire agreement to end this round of violence.
In fact, we are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been," said Kerry, who was also to meet King Abdullah.
Meanwhile US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.
But those involved do feel the country is tantalisingly close to an historic first stage converting a series of bilateral ceasefire agreements into a national one involving 16 armed groups.
Moreover, the near-equal division of Bosnia between the two principal parties, reasonably close to the ceasefire lines agreed in October, had the ring of fairness about it.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed another ceasefire agreement on Monday, edging them closer to a final deal to end a 15-month conflict that has ravaged the world's newest country, mediators said.
And it came closer, through the mediation of Egypt, to a ceasefire with the Islamists of Hamas, who control the Gaza Strip.
Some analysts consider the ceasefire in Damascus' Barzeh neighborhood to be especially successful because it was "closer to a win-win situation".
"We agreed to a ceasefire.
