"Now, what we're after here is information, not open warfare in the corridors."

This week, open warfare broke out between these two armies.

They are trying, in short, to avoid open warfare with the President.

One night spent together didn't make a relationship out of open warfare.

And every so often the accusations would break out into open warfare.

In open warfare he knew that nothing could stand against them.

They were almost at the point of breaking into open warfare.

They aren't any readier for open warfare than you and I are.

For a time it was almost open warfare between them.

Since then it had been open warfare at long range, with the outnumbered side just beginning to learn the rules.

Before they came to open warfare she supposed that she should change the conversation.

That means, primarily, deterring a return to open ethnic warfare.

He did not add what they all knew, that it was only a matter of time before this sort of thing escalated to open warfare.

This led to open warfare in the 1218.

As you have pointed out, the type of behavior he has displayed could, under only slightly different circumstances, have led to open warfare.

A return to open warfare could mean years more of fighting, analysts said.

That practice has led to open warfare in a number of jury rooms.

However, they came up with an alternative to open warfare.

On Nyah's home world, the emancipation of women eventually led to open warfare between the sexes.

What kept the two factions from coming to open civil warfare was the influence of the king.