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How to use the word ceasefire in a Sentence?

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I’ve been on the phone with counterparts from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, to make sure that we’re coordinating carefully, our team as well has been in very close contact with the African Union, with other international organizations – again, to make sure that everyone is coordinated and that we are channeling the shared determination among the international community to get to a ceasefire as quickly as possible and to put Sudan back on the track of talks, negotiations, again, to restore civilian-led government in Sudan.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia would be free to use a ceasefire to only further entrench their positions in Ukraine to rebuild, refit and refresh their forces so that they can restart attacks on Ukraine at a time of their choosing. neither Moscow nor Kyiv appear ready to make the concessions needed to bring the war to an end, and that is not something Beijing can fundamentally change.

– Brian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A ceasefire now is effectively the ratification of Russian conquest.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here were conditions for a mutual ceasefire, a civilized surrender of Azovstal, civilized conditions for our prisoners of war, and an exchange.

– Oleksandr Kovalov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This ceasefire includes the five organizations, the largest armed groups, and therefore safety could improve in about 180 municipalities… in the country, there will be areas where relief will be very low, as there are others where these groups (sic) have total relief where relief will be much greater.

– Ariel Avila

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He considered that by making a move like this he was going to subdue the ELN. Because the only means the ELN has to put pressure on the negotiating table is precisely their terrorist actions. And if the ELN commits to a bilateral ceasefire, that will prevent them from being strong on the negotiating table, the only argument the ELN has is terrorism and Mr. Petro thought that he could take that away from them, tying their hands.

– Army Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The overall impact the tariffs have had on trade is a much harder thing to sort through ever since the ceasefire.

– Joseph Glauber

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The minimum program will be humanitarian questions, and the maximum program is reaching an agreement on a ceasefire.

– Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While the U.N. Security Council can reach majority opinion and sometimes consensus on pressing international issues, there are glaring times when it is a complete failure. This is one such case, with Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, there is no way to avoid Moscow blocking a resolution that would condemn Russian aggression and support a ceasefire that would end to this horrific war.

– Kelly Craft

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can say we are hopeful for a ceasefire if the sides do not take a step back from the current positions.

– Sergei Lavrov of Russia

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Our message to our friends in the Ukrainian government, as our message was today to President Putin, is that the United States supports the Minsk process, wants to see progress made towards a ceasefire, towards confidence-building measures. And that is the best way forward.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As evidenced by Africa Jeffrey Feltman visit, State Department continues to engage the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front to secure a commitment to immediate ceasefire negotiations and lay the groundwork for a durable, peaceful solution, this is the message Africa Jeffrey Feltman delivered in Addis Ababa.

– State Department spokesperson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All parties must stop military operations and begin ceasefire negotiations without preconditions.

– Prime Minister Abiy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Continued fighting prolongs the dire humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia. All parties must stop military operations and begin ceasefire negotiations without preconditions.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now peace has come -- what people of the world wanted, 100% peace has come, there is security, thieves disappeared, not ceasefire but the war ended.

– Anas Haqqani

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With a population determined to resist, and a regime determined to hang on at all costs, violent confrontation is likely to continue, this also makes ASEAN's efforts look all the more out of touch, with its special envoy yet to visit the country, and calling just three days ago for a ceasefire.

– Richard Horsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A ceasefire temporarily halts Hamas rockets and Israeli missile strikes, but this isn’t peace, @POTUS: The Palestinian people deserve rights and freedom, not the daily repression of Israel’s ongoing military occupation.

– Betty McCollum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A ceasefire is welcome news, more than 200 civilians were killed, including children, thousands are displaced in Gaza, and millions of Israelis and Palestinians are trapped in conflict. Now we need to see meaningful movement toward a two-state solution.

– Joaquin Castro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A ceasefire is necessary, but will not alone achieve freedom, justice, and equality for all who live under Israel's apartheid government, the U.S. must condition funding to uphold human rights, and end the funding entirely if those conditions are not met.

– Rashida Tlaib

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Prime Minister Netanyahu informed me that Israel has agreed to a mutual, unconditional ceasefire to begin in less than two hours, the Egyptians have now informed us that Hamas and the other groups in Gaza have also agreed.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to see a ceasefire reach quickly and mourn the loss of life.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to see a ceasefire reached quickly and mourn the loss of life.

– The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just can't remember a shooting war where kids were being killed on both sides where The US hasn't aggressively pushed for a ceasefire, and I think we should do the same thing here.

– Tim Kaine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Asking for a ceasefire without reaching a political roadmap first, is not rational and convincing.

– Suhail Shaheen

added by anonymous
3 years ago

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