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  1. Cease Fire

    Cease Fire is the 41st episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the 15th of the second season. Captain Archer negotiates a cease fire between the Andorians and the Vulcans.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. cease fire

    1. A command given to any unit or individual firing any weapon to stop engaging the target. 2. A command given to air defense artillery units to refrain from firing on, but to continue to track, an airborne object. Missiles already in flight will be permitted to continue to intercept.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cease fire in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cease fire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of cease fire in a Sentence

  1. Gustav Gressel:

    (Germany is) more clearly aware than many in Kiev that Ukraine basically needs a cease-fire or a freezing of the conflict more urgently than Moscow, kiev needs to see sooner or later how it gets out of the war.

  2. Defense Policy John Venable:

    If Putin continues to get boxed in through sanctions, trading and banking stoppages -- and he starts losing the war, that may be reason enough for him to employ tactical nuclear weapons, the West needs to continue to apply pressure, attempt to broker a settlement/cease-fire while continuing to offer off-ramps that deescalate the potential.

  3. Donald Tusk:

    This so-called cease-fire. This is not what we expected. In fact it is not a cease-fire, it is a demand of capitulation of the Kurds, we have to reiterate our call for Turkey to put a permanent end to its military action immediately and to withdraw its forces and respect international humanitarian law.

  4. Mike Pence:

    President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, implement an immediate cease-fire and to begin to negotiate with Kurdish forces in Syria to bring an end to the violence.

  5. Petro Poroshenko:

    If the enemy doesn't want to abide by the cease-fire, if he doesn't want to put an end to the suffering of peaceful people, Ukrainian villages and town, we will smash them in the teeth.


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