Never in all this time have these forces been employed to initiate hostilities against a major military power.

And it doesn't necessarily mean you have to wait for them to initiate hostilities.

Second, we agreed that neither side would initiate hostilities against the other.

If they refused to leave, however, Muhammad intended to initiate hostilities the following morning.

Starfleet will be standing ready, should your forces attempt to initiate hostilities.

I will break off the planned attack, and not initiate hostilities with the Enterprise.

Do we fire first or wait until they initiate hostilities?

In addition, other nations have stated that a second resolution was required to initiate hostilities.

We want them to cross over to Virginia soil and initiate hostilities.

It would be all the excuse he'd need to initiate hostilities.