Sentence examples for immediate hostilities from inspiring English sources

To avoid immediate hostilities, though, the Turks ostensibly bought the German ships (and the services of their crews), replacing two dreadnoughts that had been ordered from, but requisitioned by, Britain.Thus did Germany appear to gain a new ally, and Turkey a protector against dismemberment.

"Their project was greeted by immediate hostility by a number of advocacy groups".

Before publication, an image of that page was, as is usual, transmitted to other online media and appeared on Twitter, generating immediate hostility from the Vote Leave team.

What he found was a tiny court with few resources, a town of crippling conventionality and an immediate hostility to himself and his type.

Almost any discussion of self-publishing seems to attract an immediate hostility quite unlike the amused tolerance that greets those who, say, exhibit their indifferent watercolours, or seek to try out their wine-making skills on their friends.

Mr. Obama ran into immediate Republican hostility to any tax plan that would generate additional revenue.

The US and EU urged an immediate end to hostilities.

It called for "an immediate cessation of hostilities and the immediate opening of a dialogue".

It reportedly calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities, prisoner exchanges and amnesty for certain combatants.

"First, we call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and violence".

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, called for an immediate halt to hostilities.