How To Use Truce In A Sentence

There was an uneasy truce between Alex and Dave over dinner.
An uneasy truce has broken out in the coffee shop cybersquatting war.
That truce may be temporary. Times, Sunday Times
When the ‘toddlers' truce’ was lifted the search was on for programmes to pack the vacant hour; Twizzle helped fill the vacuum.
So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.

It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
The fragile truce between rival rebel factions in the Solomon Islands came under threat after a third rebel group entered the conflict.
Shortly afterwards the brothers effected an uneasy truce and reunited. Times, Sunday Times
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Even when some of his friends recognised the peace as only a truce he remained cheerfully confident that it would be lasting.
Unilateral truces never work and we have ample history to prove that.
A truce with a leading militant group a few months ago ran into trouble, with hopes of peace receding in South Asia's most troubled area.
Both men appear together in an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
An uneasy truce occurred during the war when hostilities seemed to cease.
As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce.
Maybe a truce is in the air.
Then Thorgeir handselled a truce to Flosi and his men, as a step to a meeting for atonement; but Hall did the same on behalf of Flosi and the sons of Sigfus. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
The sources said Al Qaida has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Infidel Bloggers Alliance
The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew. The Lord of the Sea
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew. The Lord of the Sea
Llewelyn's people know that John would never have agreed to a truce if not for your intercession. HERE BE DRAGONS
Macedonian and ethnic Albanian politicians tussled over future policing at talks yesterday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.
Cornet Richard Grahame descended the hill, bearing in his hand the extempore flag of truce, and making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled. Old Mortality
The HCR bill and upcoming energy, climate and immigration issues as well as civil rights for gays, assumes that a truce is possible in this war. Matthew Yglesias » The Rise of the Filibuster
Only time will tell how long this latest "truce" subsists but it is unquestionable that Iran now has a strong foothold both in Gaza and Yehuda and the Shomron and heaven forefends it may not even need its nuclear capability to inflict heavy loss on Israel. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The battle of the backlashes has resumed in the fogbound Pennines after the briefest of truces over Christmas. Oldham East presents voters with dilemma: who gets the biggest slap?
Before she married on her 21st birthday, she negotiated over a hundred treaties, truces and allegiances.
Until it is we are not supposed to go beyond the point we reached at the time of the truce.
The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Israelated - English Israel blogs
By the time we'd all called a truce everyone was covered in gunk and goo.
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Both men appear together in an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
Will they finally call a truce, or will their business be gone with the wind? The Sun
With the rabbi he maintained an armed truce which manifested itself in a kind of jocose teasing that occasionally developed an unpleasant edge. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
A temporary truce is in effect, but negotiations for a long-term ceasefire have ground to halt. Times, Sunday Times
An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia.
During the drought of 1185, Count Raymond of Tripoli, the regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, agreed a truce with Saladin whereby the latter furnished the settlers with all the supplies they needed.
They are relatively united behind the current policy - but essentially it's a fragile truce.
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one.
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But the truce has been severely strained by nightly fighting between the two sides.
But the truce has been severely strained by nightly fighting between the two sides.
On the 30th of August, the States expressed their readiness to agree to a long truce, provided, the adverse party 'would _so absolutely acknowledge them for free countries, as that it should not be questioned after the expiration of the truce_, that otherwise they could not listen to a truce.' The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII
Knowest thou not that we tol - erate the likes o 'thee only for the sake o' the truce? Here There Are Monsters
I will make a condition with Edmund that the Etheling's odal shall not be included in the land which is peace-holy, and that to ravage it shall not be looked upon as breaking the truce. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
Which means an uneasy truce between the player and the Kop from here in. The Sun
Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations.
However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said.
Following last month's riots, the two big gangs in Los Angeles have finally declared a truce, ending years of bloodshed.
However, the nature of war is changing, and the types of wars that are now being fought could be influenced by international pressure to declare regular truces.
Perhaps it is a temporary truce, but the Chelsea players appear to be working together to find a solution. Times, Sunday Times
They agreed to call a truce .
And I think Hamas knows that destroying Israel is not something they're ever going to be able to accomplish, and they've talked openly about being receptive to a long term truce, which is already a concession from that 1988 charter document. Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Starting southward from the cross-roads, the character of the country underwent so sudden a transformation that it looked as if man, having contended here unsuccessfully with nature, had signed an ignominious truce beneath the crumbling gateposts of the turnpike. The Miller of Old Church
Manager and player settle for an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Annan said the first attempt to call a truce on April 12 had failed.
Manager and player settle for an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
When they are asked the reason for this furious and truceless war, they allege psalms and a kind of music varying from the custom which has obtained among you, and similar pretexts of which they ought to be ashamed. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The most recent self declared truces between Hamas and Israel have all featured shelling of Israeli towns (Sderot is the main one) even though an official truce is in effect. Matthew Yglesias » Fair and Balanced
With each flare-up, it is clear that the term truce has taken on a diplomatic meaning distinct from actual events on the ground. CAMERA Snapshots
If there's anything that Reagan should be honoured for it was his preparedness to welcome the initiative offered by Mikhail Gorbachev to declare a Cold War truce.
The commodore had been ordered to diplomatise, and so he did in the most effectual way, for we all sailed in with a flag of truce flying, but with the guns run out and the men at their quarters. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
Most of the time, it's an uneasy truce, but they've struck a good balance this year.
Alfred said the council should have placed notices warning people not to feed the meters during the truce.
He insulted me, snubbed me… even broke the truce he offered!
There were negotiations and truces and still more fighting.
He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
The government ordered its troops to crush the rebels after they walked out of a peace process and broke a truce last month.
Manager and player settle for an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
He may be hardening to win over militants who have balked at formalising a de facto truce.
She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.
He was caught quite unprepared for the Fifth Crusade, thinking that the truce would not be violated.
Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
There had been times of truce but again and again the hostilities became open war once more.
The Japanese invasion of Rehe (Jehol, Jan. March) led to a truce signed at Tanggu which created a demilitarized zone in eastern Hebei province under Japanese domination. 1933, May 27
There would be no truces or peace treaties, no draws.
A resolution to maintain the truce was carried by an overwhelming majority.
The Dragoons arrived on the battlefield and sent a party forward under a flag of truce.
It was the age of flounces, and this expansive tendency culminated, in the mid-'fifties, in the reign of the crinoline, against which Punch waged for many years a truceless but, as he himself admitted, a wholly ineffectual warfare. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
Even before the coalition was built, the party leaders had agreed on an electoral truce.
Shortly afterwards the brothers effected an uneasy truce and reunited. Times, Sunday Times
The fragile truce between rival rebel factions in the Solomon Islands came under threat after a third rebel group entered the conflict.
The priest helped to negotiate a truce between the warring sides.
Peacekeeping operations are designed to monitor and facilitate implementation of existing truces or cease-fires and support diplomatic efforts to reach long-term political settlements.
a precarious truce
As the last English galley sinks below the waves, an English emissary arrives at Bangalore under a white flag of truce.
The two sides called a truce to avoid further bloodshed.
After Gwen and I argued over Rick we declared a truce, and to make sure the truce got off to a good start we invited other people to join us for dinner that evening.
It was a military truce, but of course the political enmity persisted.
Dolev says this uneasy truce is the most positive vision he can offer.
So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
There was no claim of responsibility, but renegade groups in one militia have said they will not observe the truce.
By implication an uneasy truce holds, for now. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it's the missile strike, and not the mortars, which is described as endangering the truce. CAMERA Snapshots
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Government efforts to broker a truce with the tribe have collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
While this war has not ended, until quite recently a reasonable truce prevailed.
Such is also the truceless warfare of the waves on the surface of the sea, whilst profound peace reigns in the depths below. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Gangs make alliances, keep delicate truces or live as sworn enemies with each other.
Countries that try for a truce are probably seen as a hindrance. The Sun
Whether it's a truce between a volatile owner and an ornery general manager or a self-absorbed player and a temperamental coach, everything is copacetic when the games don't count.
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one.
Protestantism in the Rhineland, and by school and pulpit laboured to re-Catholicize the Empire, Rome spurred Mary Stuart to the Darnley marriage, urged Philip to march Alva on the Netherlands, broke up the religious truce which Catharine had won for France, and celebrated with solemn pomp the massacre of the Huguenots. History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
The test ahead is whether it will be a ceasefire, a truce or a lasting peace. Times, Sunday Times
It is also forbidden to harm the wounded and sick; medical or religious personnel; envoys bearing flags of truce; and, of late, even journalists.
Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
A resolution to maintain the truce was carried by an overwhelming majority.
Spokesmen for the Iraqi government and the movement of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say the two sides agreed to a truce Saturday to end weeks of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City.
She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.
It was in 1987, the Great Truce having been dissolved, that the ancient quarrel between France and Germany over Alsace-Lorraine recrudesced. THE UNPARALLELED INVASION
Betty T, I know there are a few adult books about the truce, and some picture books that cast a fabular glow over the whole thing, but Murphy's book is really good. From Cape Cod to Christmas
Conflict was punctuated by several truces and by full peace between 1360 and 1369.
But this we would not allow seeing that we had called a truce for this day. Times, Sunday Times
It flares on, despite countless local ceasefires, occasional truces and the efforts of the world to get it stopped.
They have since called a truce and combined to such stunning effect in Copenhagen. Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards the brothers effected an uneasy truce and reunited. Times, Sunday Times
Both men appear together in an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
I. iii.262 (35,4) long continu'd truce] Of this long _truce_ there has been no notice taken; in this very act it is said, that _Ajax coped Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
This has been an unending struggle against a truceless enemy who will not quit, be it in the area of practical activities as well as in ideological activities. 10TH ANNIVERSARY-INTERIOR MINISTRY
In what part of Hellas, tell me, sir, do Hellenes keep a truce with traitors, double-dyed deserters, and tyrants? Hellenica
Most of the time, it's an uneasy truce, but they've struck a good balance this year.
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
His struggle to regain Jerusalem ended in an uneasy truce with Saladin.
Naxal experts say that the initial offer of the Maoists for a 72-day truce was "just to buy time" as it was during the period when tribals had to enter forests to cut fruits, 'mahua' and tobacco leaves, forcing the extremists to abandon their camps. The Times of India
A short truce was obtained; but their mutual resentment again kindled; and the remembrance of their shame rendered the next encounter more desperate and bloody Forty thousand of the Barbarians perished in the decisive battle, which broke the power of the Gepidae, transferred the fears and wishes of Justinian, and first displayed the character of Alboin, the youthful prince of the Lombards, and the future conqueror of Italy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
50 Cent has publicly called a truce with his rap protégé The Game, ending their bitter feud.
The two sides agreed a temporary truce to bury their dead. The Tribes Triumphant
The truceless war between HD DVD and Blu Ray has a new element to think about. Il blog: HD DVD vs. Blu Ray
Meanwhile, a committee set up to monitor the shaky truce considered imposing sanctions on sides found in breach of the agreement.
It means a truceless war against low ideals and tolerated evils in the world about us. Religious Reality
They used the truce to redeploy their forces, re-equip themselves and plan new military campaigns. Times, Sunday Times
While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill? St. Ronan's Well
He associated himself with the justiciar in the appointment of royal officials; he invoked the papal authority to put down "adulterine castles," and to prevent any baron having more than one royal stronghold in his custody; he prolonged the truce with France, and strove to pacify the Prince of North Wales; he procured the resumption of the royal domain, and rebuked Bishop Peter and the justiciar for remissness in dealing with Jewish usurers; he filled up bishoprics at his own discretion. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
This treaty was a temporary truce in the Anglo-French conflict in India and North America.
Both men appear together in an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
With the frontline safe, regimental staff officers come up on visits and the truce continues through Boxing Day.
The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides.
The white flag is a symbol of a truce or surrender.
After a brief and uneasy truce, the war was reprised in 1999 - carpet-bombing, then ground troops, then guerrilla war.
He was in the region as part of a diplomatic effort to press for a ceasefire and truce negotiations. Times, Sunday Times
There have been truces, temporary remissions, and zones of peace - but so long as anarchy prevails, there can be no end to the possibility of war.
It is this that rouses against us their implacable and truceless war. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Once a truce is in place, the Security Council can deploy a peacekeeping operation to help the parties carry out their agreements.
Eastangles, the Essex men submit themselues, he inuadeth Mercia, and maketh great wast, the Kentishmens disobedience preiudiciall to themselues, they and the Danes haue a great conflict, king Edward concludeth a truce with them, he maketh a great slaughter of them by his Westsaxons and Mercians, what lands came to king Edward by the death of Edred duke of Mercia, he recouereth diuers places out of the Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
Doesn’t really matter how far you go back, the Israeli’s failed to build on the Hamas truce and each escalation has been in disproportion to the cause. Think Progress » Neocons Resurrect Plans For Regional War In The Middle East
A resolution to maintain the truce was carried by an overwhelming majority.
a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, Saint Ronan's Well
Lane began by negotiating a truce in a price war in the Far East between Royal Dutch and Shell and by putting an end to what he called the damaging “battledore and shuttlecock game of accusation” between Samuel and Deterding. The Prize
Following last month's riots, the two big gangs in Los Angeles have finally declared a truce, ending years of bloodshed.
Sometimes you just have to call a truce with nature. Times, Sunday Times
But then the truce is broken and one of the villagers may have to venture out of the community and into the outside world.
The two sides agreed a temporary truce to bury their dead. The Tribes Triumphant
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The narrative sources in particular are full of accounts of embassies and special meetings to arrange truces or conclude peace between warring bands.
In my office, there are two warring factions maintaining an uneasy truce.
Thank God for this! we hold no truce with dirt at Singholm; we bid dowdyism begone! avaunt! London's Underworld
The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew. The Lord of the Sea
They typically served to monitor ceasefires and supervise truces; occasionally, peacekeeping missions were deployed to keep belligerents apart as in Cyprus in 1964.
Talks to stabilize a shaky truce have led to relative calm interspersed with intense bouts of fighting and air strikes.
Civil war continued, punctuated by innumerable truces and lulls.
The two-day truce collapsed in intense shellfire.
Both men appear together in an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
Manager and player settle for an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times
In 628, the Prophet Muhammad agreed to a year-long hudna, hudnat Hudeibiya, which he used to reorganize his forces and then, unilaterally, to break the truce and utterly destroy his erstwhile partners in nonbelligerency. 'Israel: The Threat from Within': An Exchange
EXMP : the high command ordered a truce for the holidays.
She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.
All attacks they vigorously repulsed and made a truce, pretendedly for the purpose of arranging terms with Caesar, when he should come. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
His semiarboreal habits took him often into the domains of the great and lesser apes, and from this contact had arisen what might best be termed an armed truce, for they alone of all the other inhabitants of the earth had spoken languages, both meager it is true, yet sufficient to their primitive wants, and as both languages had been born of the same needs to deal with identical conditions there were many words and phrases identical to both. The Eternal Savage
That peace often looked like a brief truce before the next plunge into war.
This would be a night of truce -- the night of a Great Truce, such as Kwa had set up once or twice back in the Valley of the Mu. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
We have managed an uneasy truce, although neither understands the other. Times, Sunday Times
For a time at least the illusion of these formerly bitter rivals playing happy families seems to have stuck, and the truce agreed at Brundisium poured oil on the troubled waters of Mediterranean politics. Caesars’ Wives
Olympic truce; and among these is Aristotle the philosopher, who adduces as a proof of it the quoit which is at Olympia, on which the name of Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
I can remember the dominant figure of Sir Robert Borden, whose work in crowning Canada with its truce insignia of nationhood must never be forgotten. Britain Today
The fragile truce between the two sides is not expected to last long.
Both sides accuse each other of violating the truce agreement signed last year.
The truce was holy because it was signed at Olympia, sacred to Zeus.
He said that people on earth are three segments as far as Islam is concerned: The first segment are those who are the community of Islam who are members of it; the second segment are those who are peaceful and in detente with Muslims, for dhimmah or truce or protection vow, and the blood of the two groups [of this segment], is protected unless one of them does something that makes his blood spillable and his money available [for confiscation] according to jurisprudence... Monday, October 31, 2005
That peace often looked like a brief truce before the next plunge into war.
The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides.
Following last month's riots, the two big gangs in Los Angeles have finally declared a truce, ending years of bloodshed.
The priest helped to negotiate a truce between the warring sides.
In my office, there are two warring factions maintaining an uneasy truce.
Now, how does anyone feel about calling a truce? Times, Sunday Times
It means truceless war against the spirit of selfishness, against everything that tends to drag us down, against the law of sin in our own members. Religious Reality
The truce ends two years of court battles over the rights to show big games. Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards the brothers effected an uneasy truce and reunited. Times, Sunday Times
So the Hamas truce violations never "imperil" the truce. Yourish.com
Following last month's riots, the two big gangs in Los Angeles have finally declared a truce, ending years of bloodshed.
When after three days and three nights of truceless fighting the The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
Here they have been only partly successful: the most recent bipartisan truce over the economy ended last week after little more than a fortnight. Times, Sunday Times
Hillary Clinton called for an ideological truce within the Democratic Party, she was shellacked by liberal bloggers.
Government efforts to broker a truce with the tribe have collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
Divided between predator and prey, the animal citizens of Zootropolis enjoy an uneasy truce. Times, Sunday Times

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