Sentence examples for establishing a ceasefire from inspiring English sources

Moments after establishing a ceasefire in the chicken coop, my two cats (who had watched the chicken fight with barely concealed glee) noticed that a cute stray cat who has been loitering at our front door had made her way down to watch the festivities.

Key issues are establishing a ceasefire, and the rebels' demand for the release of what they see as political prisoners.

Among his early contacts was Canon Bill Arlow, a Church of Ireland minister who controversially arranged a secret meeting between Protestant church representatives and IRA leaders in 1974, with the aim of establishing a ceasefire.

But ironically enough, this same deadly period could also be a golden opportunity for every country that has a stake in the region's stability to use yesterday's deaths as motivation to redouble efforts towards establishing a ceasefire.

Both agreed the priority must be to re-establish a ceasefire that paves the way for negotiations on a more lasting peace".

In January and July 2002, and March this year, the army's assassination of senior Hamas or Tanzim commanders broke weeks without Palestinian attacks and efforts to establish a ceasefire.

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.

This time, however, aside from a call to re-establish a ceasefire, they have been more or less silent.

The leaders also called on all sides to establish a ceasefire at the crash site of the Malaysian Airlines jet that was shot down on 17 July in eastern Ukraine.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was hoping to draw the pope into efforts to establish a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was hoping to draw the pope into efforts to establish a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict d.