The next day the UK claimed the Argentine prisoners were not prisoners of war because they were taken before Argentina declared hostilities.

I was not wrong when I informed the French Government that, according to every probability, Prussia was about to declare hostilities against France, and to enter into an alliance with England.

The Malwa emperor was not ready, yet, to declare open hostilities against Rome.

It was the 92nd death of an American soldier in combat since President Bush declared major hostilities in Iraq over in May.

The soldier was the 199th killed in combat since President Bush declared major hostilities over on May 1.

Maybe a riot starts and you declare hostilities resumed and renegotiate the surrender more advantageously.

Eventually, a united Germany would have to negotiate a peace treaty with the 80 countries that had declared hostilities by the end of World War II.

If you do anything contrary to that," the colonel explained in a calm, firm voice, "you are declaring hostilities between me and you.

Since the President declared major hostilities over on the flight deck that May 1, at least 287 service personnel have been killed in steadily mounting attacks - nearly twice as many as in the war itself.

There have been occasions in the last 50 years when it has been right to declare hostilities against other nations - the Falklands, Kosovo and the first Iraq war.