Sentence examples for hostilities last from inspiring English sources

Under the War Powers Resolution a president must ask Congress's permission if hostilities last more than 90 days.

Both sides came close to full-scale hostilities last November after northern soldiers shelled an island near the border, killing four people.

During a pause in hostilities last September, the grandfather returned to harvest his small patch of land near the front and was critically injured when his tractor triggered an anti-tank mine.

Two batteries successfully intercepted and destroyed in midair most of the Katyusha-type rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza against cities in southern Israel during a flare-up of hostilities last month.

At the cessation of hostilities (1828), Iran had lost all its Georgian and Caucasian territories.

Sunday's killings were an especially vicious expression of long-running hostilities between Christians and Muslims in this divided nation.

When Russia and France renewed their hostilities (1812), he was given command of the 2nd Russian Army in the West.

Reigniting hostilities three years ago helped propel him to the presidency, but now it is impeding his reform agenda.

His former Post colleagues opened hostilities yesterday by describing his appointment as "a new round of turmoil" for the paper they deride as the "Snooze".

The confrontation already appears to be the closest the two countries have come to open hostilities since 1994, when the North threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" if its nuclear violations were referred to the United Nations for sanctions.

After the Treaty of Brétigny temporarily ended Anglo-French hostilities (1360), Hawkwood became the leader of a free company, going to Italy three years later to join the English band known as the White Company in the service of Pisa.