Sentence examples for stop hostilities from inspiring English sources

On November 1, we were told the reason was "to stop hostilities" and "prevent a resumption of them".

His attempts to stop hostilities between Edward I of England and Philip IV of France, however, became enmeshed with another important problem, the increasing tendency of these warring monarchs to tax the clergy without obtaining papal consent.

After mapping out a peace process and presiding over many months of negotiations, HD succeeded in getting both parties to Geneva in 2002 to sign an agreement to stop hostilities.

"The E.U. calls on Iran and its authorities to stop hostilities against E.U. member states as well as the E.U.'s partner countries and their citizens," said Foreign Minister Jan Kohout of the Czech Republic, the current European Union president.

The different positions suggested that the truce agreed to five days ago by the national government, under which the army would stop hostilities in exchange for being allowed to put in place a system of Islamic law, remained in flux.

Each side in the Syrian conflict accused the other of escalating violence ahead of Tuesday, when a cease-fire plan calls for the Syrian military to withdraw from cities and towns, followed by a 48-hour period in which all combatants stop hostilities.

In 1555 he accepted the Peace of Augsburg, which stopped hostilities on religious grounds between Roman Catholic and Lutheran princes in Germany.

During the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations -- from the Suez crisis to the aftermath of the 1973 war -- American diplomacy repeatedly focused on preventing the outbreak of an Arab-Israeli war or stopping hostilities before a war widened to include the major powers.

Sudan says that until the South withdraws from territory it has occupied it has not "stopped hostilities".

In a statement, a foreign ministry spokesman said Sudan would "fully commit to what has been issued in the resolution about stopping hostilities with South Sudan according to the time limits issued".

But Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad said that the South must withdraw from areas it had occupied otherwise "this means they haven't stopped hostilities", reports the AFP news agency.