cessation
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“For us here in the region, while we prefer a stalemate over war, we prefer a permanent cessation of hostilities over a stalemate,” the senior Gulf official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
To Modi's call for a cessation of hostilities, the Kremlin leader replied:
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Washington had said the cessation in fighting was aimed at kickstarting a new round of negotiations, including over the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The text of the agreement also calls for the permanent cessation of the conflict and for Lebanon's territorial integrity and sovereignty to be ensured.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
With the cessation of lactation the female reenters somer and becomes once more a perfect androgyne.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations last week had resulted in an agreement to create tentative cessations of fighting along “green” humanitarian corridors to facilitate civilian evacuations.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
During cessations of hostilities in the 1980s and 1990s, standard immunizations reached children in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lebanon, and Sudan.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2021
Sleep apnea is a term that’s used broadly to describe cessations of breath during sleep.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2017
“Given the previous failures of cessations of hostilities to hold, we approach it with some skepticism,” Obama said, “but it is worth trying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2016
We know that there are diseases in which occur total cessations of all the apparent functions of vitality, and yet in which these cessations are merely suspensions, properly so called.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
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