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    armistice


    1. possible the armistice is the only solution


    2. fact that the violation of armistice makes one of


    3. “With the collapse of the Russians, and the signing of the armistice on the Eastern Front, they realize that this opportunity may not come their way again


    4. helped negotiate an armistice that prevented victory on our part


    5. Trapped in the city square, Ampudia was forced to surrender and Taylor negotiated a two-month armistice that infuriated President Polk when he heard about it


    6. After a few months, when the armistice signaled the end of the war, the force of necessity and chance that put Eisner and the Socialists in charge lost its momentum


    7. As part of the armistice


    8. Today is the armistice


    9. But when the approach of the armistice became known and they thought that he would return changed back into a human being, delivered at last for the hearts of his own people, the family feelings, dormant for such a long time, were reborn stronger than ever


    10. Six months before, when she had heard talk about the armistice, Úrsula had opened up and swept out the bridal chamber and had burned myrrh in the corners, thinking that he would come back ready to grow old slowly among Remedios’ musty dolls

    11. ” On the eve of the armistice, when no single object that would let him be remembered was left in the house, he took the trunk of poetry to the bakery when Santa Sofía de la Piedad was making ready to light the oven


    12. In accordance with his arrangements there was no music, no fireworks, no pealing bells, no shouts of victory, or any other manifestation that might alter the mournful character of the armistice


    13. He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time


    14. Then, when he rejected the Order of Merit awarded him by the pres-ident of the republic, even his most bitter enemies filed through the room asking him to withdraw recognition of the armistice and to start a new war


    15. It was an oper-ation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureliano Buendía had recovered, his most dedicated conspirators were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration


    16. The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were may-ors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macon-do


    17. After the armistice of Neerlandia, while Colonel Aureliano Buendía took refuge with his little gold fishes, he kept in touch with the rebel officers who had been faithful to him until the defeat


    18. occupation and stayed on after unification, but for armistice


    19. ‘’Uh, what is happening with those Israeli accusations against you, Nancy? Are they still holding a grudge against you, even after being basically forced to sign an armistice with Iran?’’


    20. � First of, we still have to decide how to react to the Italians� offer of an armistice

    21. � We should agree to this armistice but we can�t promise any military help to the Italians: we are already stretched too thin


    22. On 13 November 1918 he was told of the Armistice and twelve days later capitulated to General Edwards at Abercorn


    23. I want those two EC-142s to stay widely separated and to cover as much of the length of the armistice line as possible


    24. Yet, in that parallel history, the United States barely avoided defeat and ended the war with a precarious armistice that only perpetuated the confrontation for the decades to come


    25. Prior to the cessation of hostilities, Hitler insisted that the French must undergo the humiliation of signing the armistice in the very same railway carriage at Compiegne that Marshall Foch had dictated surrender terms to the Germans in 1918


    26. On June 22nd the Germans delivered an ultimatum to the French to sign the documents immediately or hostilities would resume within an hour; the armistice was duly signed


    27. On June 16th, the French government, who by this stage consisted of a group of defeatists headed by Petain, informed Britain that they intended to seek an armistice with Germany


    28. A week later, the French requested an armistice


    29. On 14th June the Germans entered Paris, compelling the French to seek an armistice


    30. A more prudent German government would have used this pause to seek an armistice and escape the inevitable final wave of destruction

    31. The remainder of the war was relatively uneventful, but it lingered on like a bad rash, with fighting continuing in a near stalemate for two more years before an armistice was finally signed


    32. To the Terran Federation Council and to Grand Administrator Li, the true artisans of this totally unneeded war, I say this: enter now armistice talks with the Spacers League and stop this obscene waste of lives


    33. Your brothers, sons, nephews and other nobles have proved equally negligent and selfish, so we have no choice now but to impose an immediate and indefinite armistice across the whole of Francia


    34. Anyone violating that armistice will be warned at first, then will be destroyed if the violence continues


    35. While the war had been over for nearly two years now, the reality was more like a tense armistice than a real peace, with extremist groups in Africa and South Asia vowing revenge on the Spacers League and the Northern Alliance


    36. ‘’The arrogance of these capitalists! They refuse to consider or armistice offer as long as our forces occupy the Baltic states


    37. ‘’In view of the military impass we are in presently, I believe that we have no choice but to start withdrawing immediately our troops from the Balt countries and to then tell the Americans that we are ready to start the talks for an armistice


    38. The press reporters and photographers also took note of the medals and followed her with their cameras at her arrival at the Finnish State Council Palace, where the armistice negociations were to be held


    39. The Finnish minister of foreign affairs, who presided over the armistice talks, finally opened the meeting with three bangs of his gavel on the table, speaking first in English and then in Russian


    40. The Soviets had finally bowed to nearly all the demands of the Allies and had just signed a formal armistice, which would soon be followed by a peace accord between the United States and the USSR

    41. At first there was a silence, a motionlessness in the house, reminding her of Armistice Day, for the staff was holding its breath, expecting judgment to fall on it directly its two heads emerged from the room of Fate upstairs; but long before Miss Cartwright, waiting for her telephone to ring, had started wondering, and from wondering had proceeded to uneasiness, the house began to stir, to make faint movements of thankfully resumed work


    42. So those foes formed an armistice and vacated the site of that conflagrant Lingam since it continued wearing away at Antarloka in spite of their optimistic hopes


    43. The mercenaries then dickered with the Romans for an armistice


    44. “Ten years ago, a kind of armistice was agreed between the merchants, the monks and the hospital


    45. The family did not know if he was living or dead until he was repatriated during the chaos that followed the Armistice


    46. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans


    47. After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead


    48. I badly wanted to have my father on the line before I called them: The Armistice Council would be made up of world-renowned scientists or EDA commanders or both, and they probably wouldn’t listen to some eighteen-year-old kid


    49. I’m on hold with all five members of the Armistice Council,” I said


    50. I was about to introduce my father to my two best friends when the Armistice Council took us off hold



















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    Synonyms for "armistice"

    armistice cease-fire truce

    "armistice" definitions

    a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms