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Discover Ludwig"return to hostilities" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to resume fighting or conflict after a period of peace or ceasefire. Example: After several months of failed peace negotiations, the two countries finally returned to hostilities, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.
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A number of specific risks threaten a return to hostilities — and further escalation.
The potential arrival of the Portuguese at Old Trafford would signal a return to hostilities with Pep Guardiola.
If he wins, there is the very real prospect of all hope collapsing and a return to hostilities.
However, it was not clear whether a significant return to hostilities was imminent, or if the renewed military exchanges would prove to be short-lived.
A return to hostilities is inevitable if progress is not made and the root causes of conflict are not addressed," they said.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, issued a statement condemning the breakdown of the ceasefire, adding that he was "gravely disappointed by the return to hostilities".
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The question is how long that process can be sustained, and how it will end: with a nuclear-free North Korea at peace with its neighbors, with detente and containment of a de facto nuclear-armed state, or with a return to open hostility.
Journalist and commentator Oral Çalışlar said that neither the Turkish government nor the PKK had anything to gain from a return to full-scale hostilities.
The Russian market was also weakened by investors divesting in the wake of the war in Georgia, which raised the specter of a return to cold war hostilities with the West.
Most analysts here contend that even if relations between Argentina and the United States cool, it is unlikely that there will be a return to the outright hostility that prevailed both during Gen. Juan Perón's rule and the reign of the military dictatorship that took power after his death.
Mr. Kerry has demanded a return to the cessation of hostilities agreement he negotiated with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov on Sept. 9, which collapsed a week later.
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