armed hostilities
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After decades of debilitating armed hostilities, the Philippine government signed a 2014 peace pact with the largest Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in the south of the largely Catholic nation.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
“Any time a nuclear power plant is in the middle of armed hostilities, shelling on its territory and nearby creates unacceptable risks,” Rauf said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2022
The United States, after all, is still in a state of armed hostilities with North Korea.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2017
But perhaps we will know the next world war not by bold moral declarations that armed hostilities have begun but by the flood of refugees that follow.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 8, 2015
If, despite our best efforts, a local dispute should flare into armed hostilities, the next problem would be to keep the conflict from spreading, and so compromising freedom.
From State of the Union Address by Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
