The phrase "fighting ceased" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to express that an argument or battle has ended. For example: "Once the fighting ceased, the two sides were finally able to negotiate a peace agreement."
The Syrian defenders and most of the Arab inhabitants fled, and Syria asked for an armistice; fighting ceased on June 10.
After fighting ceased in 1970, but conflict between North and South Yemen continued, despite informal talks about unification beginning in 1974.
More than 200,000 fled after fighting ceased more than three years ago, when about 2,500 Serbs were abducted or killed in retaliation for thousands of wartime Albanian deaths.
He expressed the hope that the Soviet Union and Commu nist China could be persuaded to favor, as the United States and Britain do, renewed con sultations with a view to reap plying the 1962 Geneva accords under which fighting ceased and a neutralist coalition Gov ernment was formed in Laos.
They also expect to find graffiti on the walls, poetry, bottles of drink, and all manner of artefacts untouched since the day fighting ceased.
The privately owned land in the sleepy rural village of La Boisselle had been practically untouched since fighting ceased in 1918, remaining one of the most poignant sites of the Battle of the Somme.
The idea that fighting ceases during important cricket games comes from two sides: Tamil Tiger spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiriyan, and the representative of the Campaign for Peace & Unity in Sri Lanka I spoke to last week.
Webmaster War III, built with help from Mike Scullin, a Web designer in Philadelphia, chronicles the history of Web sites shut down by Fox for using trademarked material, offers legal tips on fighting cease-and-desist notices and coordinates a letter-writing campaign to persuade Fox to loosen its grip on the material, including fan-generated fiction, whose characters the studios say they own.
Only after 1862, when the Santee rose up against the whites and were subsequently removed to the Dakota Territory, did the fighting cease.
The holy month of Ramadan, the Koran's time for fighting to cease, is less than two weeks off.
Under the US Russian accord accepted by President Bashar al-Assad's government and many of his foes, fighting should cease so aid can reach civilians and talks can open to end a war that has killed more than 250,000 people and made 11 million homeless.
