cease-fire

Converse of object

• violate: Was a greater impetus needed in order to violate the cease-fire?
• declare: Frankly, we all need to take a deep breath and declare a cease-fire.
• negotiate: Charles negotiated a cease-fire in Ireland that freed English troops for action on the mainland.
• enforce: I asked everyone to try their best to agree, declare, implement, monitor and enforce a cease-fire for a whole next year.
• announce: Just as the project began, the IRA, and shortly afterward the Combined Loyalist Military Command, announced cease-fires.
• monitor: The United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone ( UNOMSIL ) was retained to help monitor the cease-fire.

Preposition: in

• order: We wish to have an unannounced cease-fire in order to hold dialog leading to peace.

Adjective modifier

• unilateral: Number two: Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation.
• immediate: Question: Why not simply demand an immediate cease-fire by both sides?
• paramilitary: Despite this murder, the loyalist paramilitary cease-fire was still deemed to be in place.
• unconditional: The war in Croatia lasted until January 1992, when an unconditional cease-fire established an uneasy peace between the Croatian government and ethnic Serbs.
• comprehensive: He reiterated the call for cessation of hostilities or, better still, a comprehensive cease-fire.
• first: January 2, 1992: The Sarajevo Accord establishes the first lasting cease-fire in the war in Croatia.

Modifies a noun

• violation: The UN also uses the term to refer to forceful actions to prevent cease-fire violations or to reinstate a failed cease-fire.
• agreement: Despite a cease-fire agreement signed in 1994, a formal peace treaty remains elusive.
• resolution: This was the posture which the U.N. took from the time resolution 687, the cease-fire resolution, was passed in April 1991.
• line: UN peacekeepers still patrol the cease-fire lines left behind during previous wars.
• negotiation: The need to do so was no longer presented as subordinate to the two-party cease-fire negotiations.

Noun used with modifier

• IRA: Smyth, Jim An analysis of the background to the IRA cease-fire in Northern Ireland.
• loyalist: The loyalist cease-fire allowed people to feel safer in publicly expressing political feelings in such a campaign.