suspension of hostilities

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It was a temporary suspension of hostilities, not a long-term settlement of differences.

From Slate • May 6, 2024

It did so after negotiating intensely to change language on the suspension of hostilities and mechanisms to monitor and speed up aid delivery.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

It would call “for the urgent suspension of hostilities to allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and for urgent steps towards a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Saudi Arabia had sought a suspension of hostilities with Iran for years, first through talks held in Baghdad that eventually went nowhere.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2023

At the same time, a peace like this, brought about by a third party, is always something in the nature of a mere suspension of hostilities.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul