Examples of 'ceasefires' in a sentence

Meaning of "ceasefires"

ceasefire (noun) - a temporary suspension of fighting or warfare by mutual agreement between the warring parties. Ceasefires are often used as an opportunity to pursue peace negotiations or provide humanitarian aid
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Ceasefires remained central to any peacekeeping operation.
These attacks continued after the ceasefires.
Ceasefires have been declared and then broken.
We need to understand that ceasefires are not enough.
Formal ceasefires or political solutions are inconceivable.
What happened after the ceasefires is more questionable.
Ceasefires are just the first step toward peace.
They signed ceasefires with them.
Support to peace agreements and ceasefires.
The first three ceasefires collapsed within hours.
Landmines do not pay heed to peace treaties or ceasefires.
Paramilitary ceasefires and peace process.
But a country divided in two does not accept ceasefires.
Several ceasefires in the past failed.
Peacekeeping was most often restricted to monitoring ceasefires.

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Earlier ceasefires have not been respected.
These weapons do not abide by ceasefires or peace agreements.
Ceasefires broken as factions disagree.
Three of these later signed ceasefires.
Talk of ceasefires is not enough.
They do not have ceasefires.
Multiple promises of ceasefires and peace agreements have failed.
Ceasefires had repeatedly failed.
These humanitarian ceasefires have thus far not been renewed.
We have seen some limited progress in terms of the ceasefires.
The ceasefires get broken.
Soldiers deploy rapidly to underpin ceasefires and peace agreements.
No new ceasefires were reached in besieged areas during the reporting period.
It reported on the progress of the ceasefires and any violations.
The promised ceasefires are not having any effect on the ground.
The story of two ceasefires.
Peace talks and ceasefires seem close to being over for good.
They claim to be a guarantor of ceasefires.
Promotion of ceasefires and corridors of peace to allow delivery of essential services to children.
And in the process are helping incubate ceasefires and truces.
Enforcing ceasefires requires a robust and sustained peacekeeping presence on the ground.
Israel can always end the rocket fire by obeying ceasefires.
Past ceasefires have been rendered absurd by the same linguistic slight of hand.
It reported on the progress of the ceasefires and any violations against them.
Military activities of varying intensity are interrupted only by brief and fragile ceasefires.
Efforts to promote ceasefires and peace agreements can of course give rise to dilemmas.
More and better information on the role played by ceasefires is therefore needed.
Numerous ceasefires and political talks held through international mediation proved fruitless.
They made some agreements on local ceasefires to allow access for humanitarian workers.
Many ceasefires were announced but most of them did not last more than a few days.
Officials said they would consider further such temporary ceasefires in days to come.
There were dozens of ceasefires and peace treaties but the confrontations did not stop.
The DCC is the military commission responsible for overseeing ceasefires.
Hamas has so far publicly rejected any ceasefires unless all of its demands were met.
Such ceasefires are now known as Days of Tranquillity.

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