(n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
(2) Ever since North Korea’s first atomic test in 2006 (followed by others in 2009 and 2013), the risk of escalation and confrontation in a region where peace only rests on the 1953 armistice has long been obvious.
(3) Dr Wilson will be giving an eve-of-Armistice-Day talk, Monday November 10, 7.30 pm on Siegfried Sassoon at the Old Town Hall, Richmond, Surrey.
(4) In 1953, Kim’s rival Syngman Rhee – the first president of South Korea – refused to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement , he wanted to fight on.
(5) His career in anaesthesia began after the Armistice, when he was posted with Ivan Magill to Harold Gillies's plastic surgery unit at Sidcup.
(6) It warned that the attack was a violation of the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953.
(7) The armistice never became a fully-fledged peace agreement and therefore North and South Korea technically remain at war.
(8) The 1950-53 war ended with an armistice, but the two Koreas never signed a peace treaty.
(9) Yonhap news agency said the missiles were launched only about 12 miles north of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that has divided the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in a fragile armistice.
(10) No peace treaty was signed after their three-year conflict which ended in an armistice in 1953.
(11) On Armistice Day, she used to watch those veterans and say: "Harry should be there with them."
(12) Hotlines have been cut, the 1953 armistice and later agreements denounced .
(13) But the EU summit in Ypres will also struggle to strike an armistice, with David Cameron and Angela Merkel, who are locking horns over the vexed question of Jean-Claude Juncker .
(14) There, one-half of the Turkish force took up the entrenched position about the city, which it held until after the Armistice.
(15) Clapper's assessment to a Senate committee on Tuesday came as the North Korean state press said people are ready to "rain bullets on the enemy" amid increasing tensions since Pyongyang announced the 1953 armistice with Seoul was at an end.
(16) Ninety years on from the Armistice, we look at the events of 1914-18 and think we are examining our national psychic wound.
(17) Black labour had been welcomed, especially at sea, but "when the armistice was signalled on 11 November 1918, the wartime boom for black labour fizzled out as quickly as it had begun".
(18) North and South Korea are still in a state of war technically because they never signed a peace treaty after an armistice ended the 1950-53 conflict.
(19) The backdrop to Lee's conviction is an ideological conflict whose roots lie in the separation of the peninsula after the Korean war, which ended with an armistice but not a peace treaty.
(20) The prime minister said there would be events in 2014 to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the war and in 2018 for the centenary of Armistice Day, and also on the dates of major battles in between.
Denounce
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
(v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
(v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
(3) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
(4) By contrast, a Guardian Australia video of Labor's transport spokesman, Anthony Albanese, using a whiteboard to denounce the government's package received more than 60,000 hits.
(5) In a sign of growing divisions among the coalition partners, the deputy prime minister interrupted his attendance at the Rio+20 summit to authorise a briefing by party officials criticising the plans and denouncing Gove.
(6) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(7) It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else.
(8) A broad coalition of Egyptian organisations – some Islamist, some secular – plan to join with British NGOs and trade unions in protest at Sisi’s arrival ; letters denouncing Cameron’s invitation have been issued by political figures and academics , and an early-day motion in parliament condemning the visit has been signed by 51 MPs, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
(9) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
(10) China's ambassador to Japan, Cui Tiankai, denounced her as a criminal.
(11) In recent months there have been series of protests against the intensifying campaign, with one Catholic leader denouncing the cross removals as an “evil act” .
(12) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(13) Rather than immediately denouncing everything we see, why not listen to the full arguments from a variety of sources and form an opinion based on facts and information rather than ignorance and emotive reflex?
(14) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(15) Finally, after reporting 14 incidents with no reply he sent a recorded delivery letter to the agency denouncing a "health scandal".
(16) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(17) They helped to persuade him to order the release of all victims still in exile and to make the "secret speech" in 1956 in which he denounced Stalin's crimes.
(18) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
(19) "We have denounced them to the police, but the police say they need evidence, such as pictures, but imagine taking pictures when they were jihadis, they would have cut your throat.
(20) Sony Pictures has denounced a “brazen” cyberattack it said netted a “large amount” of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.