Sentence examples for demilitarize from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove troops from an area
These operations ranged from providing support to political processes in places such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, and Lebanon to supplying comprehensive support to efforts to demilitarize conflict areas and reestablish judicial, police, security, and good governance capabilities in war-torn areas.
Warfare was halted by an agreement whereby European troops, sponsored by the United Nations (UN), were installed in the disputed areas in order to stabilize and demilitarize them.
At the end of the conflict of 1998 99, the KLA agreed to demilitarize.
The demands include plans to end broken windows policing, policing for profit, limit the use of force by officers, demilitarize local police departments, equip officers with body cameras, retrain officers to de-escalate situations and ensure community oversight and involvement.
The Syrian President, playing for time, agreed to a plan to establish a ceasefire; demilitarize the cities and towns; oversee the release of arbitrarily detained people; insure freedom of movement for aid groups and the press, and freedom of assembly and association for peaceful demonstrators; and foster conditions for political dialogue.
A Presidential election in Mexico in July restored the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., to power, and the incoming President Enrique Peña Nieto has signalled (if vaguely) that he intends to demilitarize his predecessor's campaign against the major trafficking cartels.
The fort was demilitarized in 1905 after the separation of Norway from Sweden.
He said that the state must be "demilitarized".
The Bosporus and the Dardanelles were to be demilitarized and placed under international control.
Junya Watanabe used cotton cartridge belts as accessories to an ironic collection of Boer-style jodhpurs, khakis, safari jackets, orderlies' coats, middy blouses, and other martial gear demilitarized with sweetly flocked stripes and florals.
Avishai finds hope in the suggestion that Gaza could be demilitarized under international law.
