Sentence examples for commencement of hostilities from inspiring English sources
"New York," he wrote, "before the commencement of hostilities, was supposed to be the most lukewarm of the middling States, in the opposition to the designs of the British".
"Declaration of war… rumble of drums... Commencement of hostilities in a long parade through the empty rainlashed streets," Dos Passos writes.
The massacre was the official reason given for the commencement of hostilities in the First Mithridatic War.
She left for her first war patrol on 19 August 1939 (two weeks before the commencement of hostilities), from the port of Kiel.
On 3 November 1914, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the first British attack on the Dardanelles following the commencement of hostilities between Ottoman Turkey and Russia.
With the commencement of hostilities between Japan and the British Empire, it became clear that the three hospital ships currently serving Australia Manunda, Wanganella, and Oranje would not be able to operate in the shallow waters typical of Maritime Southeast Asia, so a new hospital ship was required.
That marked the commencement of Indonesian hostilities in the form of guerrilla raids across the border.
In its announcement, issued after trading ended yesterday, Berkshire cited two provisions in the tender offer that allowed Berkshire to walk away if there was "any general suspension of trading in securities on any national securities exchange" or "a commencement of a war or armed hostilities or other national or international calamity directly or indirectly involving the United States".
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cited two provisions in the tender offer that allowed Berkshire to walk away if there was "any general suspension of trading in securities on any national securities exchange" or "a commencement of a war or armed hostilities or other national or international calamity directly or indirectly involving the United States".
Commencement of the fur trade provoked hostility from the French colony in Canada and amongst the natives, all of whom vied to control the trade.
