Our commitment to see it through means a longer stay and a higher cost than we were led to believe before hostilities.

In particular the idea of concentrating forces in the interior away from the borders before hostilities began to gain popularity.

Her sister was killed by the Gestapo only three days before hostilities ended.

You were supposed to shake hands before opening hostilities.

He returned to duty on October 28 but saw no further action before hostilities ended with the armistice of November 11, 1918.

Some of the worlds leading hybridisers had been working at Fellbach before hostilities.

They have been credited with guiding the Association toward a more educated position, promoting youth coaching and training just before hostilities in 1939.

Of about 200 to 500 human shields who traveled to Iraq before hostilities, at least eighty stayed.

The ship also carried medical supplies and general cargo-as well as 16,526 troops-to Europe before hostilities ended.

It was this latter emphasis on obtaining information long before hostilities that was perhaps of greatest significance.