lift a curfew

To their surprise, he lifted a curfew after only three hours.

The third measure was to lift a curfew on the Hebron market.

It erupted as soon as the army lifted a curfew on Arab residents for two hours to let them buy food.

The authorities have yet to relax a partial state of emergency in the province by lifting a curfew and opening schools.

Although passions continue to run high in the Georgian capital, the authorities lifted a curfew and withdrew tanks and troops a week after the violence.

The Algerian Army announced today that it was lifting a curfew imposed throughout much of the country since early June.

In East Jerusalem, police lifted a curfew this evening on the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur after 22 hours.

Authorities in the Rhone region, which covers Lyon and nearby south-eastern towns, lifted a curfew on minors after just eight cars were destroyed overnight.

But clashes there have been fierce whenever the Israelis authorities even briefly lifted a curfew that had been imposed on the entire Gaza Strip until today.

The Soviet military commander here expressed hope today that troops could begin returning home by mid-February and that authorities could lift a curfew imposed after violent ethnic clashes in Azerbaijan.

On Monday, the government lifted a curfew it had imposed on Baghdad after a series of car bombs on Thursday killed more than 200 people in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.

In the Gaza Strip today, Israel lifted a curfew that had confined about 600,000 Arabs to their homes for a week, the longest such restriction in that area since the uprising began 18 months ago.

Barry Bearak (NYT) SRI LANKA: CURFEW LIFTED A curfew was lifted in Colombo at 12:30 p.m., but not before more than 1,000 ethnic Tamils had been detained for questioning by security forces.