Sentence examples for total ceasefire from inspiring English sources

This is the moment for a total ceasefire, an end to the madness.

As a precursor to Palestinian-Israeli talks, Hamas must declare a total ceasefire, this time including security personnel, which should hold long enough to make Israel comfortable.

Bush's strongest supporter in Europe continues to be British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but many in Blair's own Foreign Office, as a former diplomat said, believe that he has "gone out on a particular limb on this" — especially by accepting Bush's refusal to seek an immediate and total ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"We hope that all parties will exercise restraint before there is an entire total ceasefire," Putin said.

"All agreed in principle to a total ceasefire along the entire line of contact between Ukrainian Armed Forces and those under control of the (Luhansk People's Republic), to be effective from 5 December," the OSCE said in a statement.

This in turn provoked threats of further reprisals from the militants.Mr Arafat has reiterated his call for a total Palestinian ceasefire, on condition that Israel also accepts it and international monitors oversee its implementation.

No Israeli government would have been able to agree to such a deal, which would have left soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories targets for attack.Talk of a ceasefire is "total nonsense", counters Moshe Yaalon, Israel's new army chief.

"If Assad does not adhere to this, there will clearly be repercussions, and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and then go back to war," Kerry said.

And with a ceasefire, fear of retaliatory violence diminished.A total of 13 people have disappeared.

On Friday night he let it be known that he no longer insists on seven days of total quiet before beginning negotiations on a more permanent ceasefire.

Georgia is in a state of total military aggression," he said, while calling for "an immediate ceasefire".