How to Use war party in a Sentence

war party

noun
  • The warring parties have been locked in a bloody stalemate for most of the last three years.
    Time, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The war in Afghanistan is 16 years old, yet America does not have an anti-war party.
    Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The bold ones surge out like a marauding war party to meet whatever gets caught in their web.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The talks, meant to be the first between Yemen's warring parties in two years, were scheduled for Thursday in Geneva.
    Ahmed Al-Haj, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • The envoy had heard about the school that brought children of warring parties together and wanted to have a look.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Delegations from the warring parties met for talks on Tuesday in the town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli.
    Samy Magdy, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • To break this cycle, all warring parties ... should move towards talks.
    Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2017
  • One man shared a story about a young Native man who went on his first war party but was killed by an enemy tribe.
    Kevin Abourezk, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The United Nations will call for an emergency meeting to work a cease-fire among all warring parties.
    chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Take ending the Korean War, which is technically still going since the warring parties agreed to pause the war — not end it — in 1953.
    Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In the end, Wilson’s idealism and the crusading anti-war parties in the U.S. couldn’t save the country from getting sucked into the conflict.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Fighting ceased in 1953, but the warring parties only signed an armistice — a truce — which means the war technically continues to this day.
    Alex Ward, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Despite the fighting, U.N. officials were still hoping to reach a last-minute deal between the warring parties to stop a full-scale assault of Hodeidah and its port.
    Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • The expectation is that the warring parties will avoid bombing those areas.
    Patrick Dehahn, Quartz, 22 June 2019
  • The regulator has instead suggested the warring parties come to terms on their own, said one person briefed on the matter.
    WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • As tensions with the Mexican government increased, this group became known as the war party.
    Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Yet these two nations are among the great unreconciled of the 20th century’s warring parties.
    The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The withdrawal of Houthi fighters from the strategic city was part of an agreement reached between Yemen's warring parties in Stockholm last December.
    Becky Anderson, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • The 2015 peace deal provided for such withdrawal to set up a safe buffer zone, but both warring parties have balked at implementing the demand.
    Yuras Karmanau, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The rules allow warring parties to inspect goods such as food, fuel and medicines destined for civilians but not to excessively delay them.
    Sarah Algethami, Bloomberg.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • According to Rauchenstein, the victims of the airstrike on the prison were likely prisoners of war, who would have been released as part of the Stockholm agreement, signed last December by Yemen's warring parties.
    Sarah El Sirgany and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As has been well documented, the midfielder's contract with Schalke runs out at the end of the season, which has lead to the veritable dogfight that has ensued between the warring parties.
    SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The warring parties there agreed to a ceasefire last Wednesday, set to again at 12:00 a.m. Saturday, but each side accusing the other of attacking in the early hours of Saturday morning.
    Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Roughly 100 years after the war party’s attack, a Dakota entourage arrived in Mille Lacs bearing a ceremonial gift for the Ojibwe who had conquered them, a shocking kind of grace in the face of grief and loss.
    New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The panoply of conflicts and warring parties has made the war resistant to international peacemaking.
    Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Strikingly, there is no war party in Congress banging the drum for unilateral action.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Her message to the warring parties was simple: Return to the negotiating table.
    Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Another approach would include creation of a special assembly of Afghanistan leaders that would choose a new interim government to run the country while the warring parties work on a plan to end the war.
    Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Zolotukhin is spokesman for the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria.
    Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Both Russia and Turkey have been accused of exacerbating the conflict in Libya by giving military aid to its warring parties.
    Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020

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