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Sentence Examples An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia. He may be hardening to win over militants who have balked at formalising a de facto truce. Finn watches his first mate wave the makeshift truce flag at the ship, hoping he wasn't about to see his friend get blown to smithereens. For many years, the small community has shared an uneasy truce with the creatures. Most of the time, it's an uneasy truce, but they've struck a good balance this year. We called it a final truce and decided to find somewhere for a pit stop before leaving. Alfred said the council should have placed notices warning people not to feed the meters during the truce. She hated watching us fight, but never took sides and could only muster up a whimper for a truce. Even before the coalition was built, the party leaders had agreed on an electoral truce. There had been times of truce but again and again the hostilities became open war once more. Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations. There was no claim of responsibility, but renegade groups in one militia have said they will not observe the truce. As the last English galley sinks below the waves, an English emissary arrives at Bangalore under a white flag of truce. With the frontline safe, regimental staff officers come up on visits and the truce continues through Boxing Day. A smile, a white flag of truce on a stick, and an unarmed handshake for the first official he met. 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. In agreeing to the truce, union leaders knuckled under to company threats to close its operations. But then the truce is broken and one of the villagers may have to venture out of the community and into the outside world. This treaty was a temporary truce in the Anglo-French conflict in India and North America. Talks to stabilize a shaky truce have led to relative calm interspersed with intense bouts of fighting and air strikes. Show More Sentences The government ordered its troops to crush the rebels after they walked out of a peace process and broke a truce last month. Meanwhile, a committee set up to monitor the shaky truce considered imposing sanctions on sides found in breach of the agreement. He was caught quite unprepared for the Fifth Crusade, thinking that the truce would not be violated. With time running out, Hardy and Osborne call a temporary, if uneasy, truce. Both sides accuse each other of violating the truce agreement signed last year. While this war has not ended, until quite recently a reasonable truce prevailed. Even when some of his friends recognised the peace as only a truce he remained cheerfully confident that it would be lasting. Until it is we are not supposed to go beyond the point we reached at the time of the truce. But the truce has been severely strained by nightly fighting between the two sides. An uneasy truce occurred during the war when hostilities seemed to cease. Annan said the first attempt to call a truce on April 12 had failed. 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. By the time we'd all called a truce everyone was covered in gunk and goo. The Barzeh truce sparked outrage from commentators aligned with the opposition, who viewed it as little more than capitulation. The self-imposed embargo did not last long, however, casting doubt on the permanence of this network-induced truce, as well. 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. Overcome by their desire for a truce, accepted a tool of war as a symbol of peace. In my office, there are two warring factions maintaining an uneasy truce. Dolev says this uneasy truce is the most positive vision he can offer. Since 2007, maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce. Show More Sentences An uneasy truce has broken out in the coffee shop cybersquatting war. 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. These hostile sparks seemed however at first only to threaten for a moment, they promised to end in smoke, and in the following year the French entered into a truce with the Spaniards. After the truce in 1988, Khomeini issued a secret fatwa ordering that all MEK supporters in Iranian prisons should be killed. I almost though we could have a truce but there you go again! It was a military truce, but of course the political enmity persisted. And it is no secret that Hamas, if it is seeking peace at all, is seeking a hudna, a truce, not a full and final peace treaty. As a result, the temporary truce negotiated by the ICRC is uneasy and, at best, only partial. Progress toward a truce was slowed by many minor sticking points. Macedonian and ethnic Albanian politicians tussled over future policing at talks yesterday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce. After some arguments, the two kings negotiated a truce and retreated without fighting, leaving the underlying issues unresolved. Their queen, Cartimandua was unable or unwilling to protect him however given her own truce with the Romans and handed him over to the invaders. Richard's campaign undermined the truce between Henry and Philip and both sides again mobilised large forces in anticipation of war. A truce was accepted, and Richard I had almost recovered all Normandy and now held more territories in Aquitaine than he had before. In 1168, the intercession of Pope Alexander III was necessary to secure a truce between them. When Henry II and Louis VII made a truce on 8 September 1174, its terms specifically excluded Richard. While on a truce the French and English kings intervened in the War of the Breton Succession. Without Parliament's support, Charles attacked Scotland again, breaking the truce at Berwick, and suffered a comprehensive defeat. At length Nelson dispatched a letter to the Danish commander, Crown Prince Frederick, calling for a truce, which the Prince accepted. Eventually a truce was declared and a line drawn between the leftern and the rightern semispheres. Show More Sentences A truce at Nice in 1538 on the basis of uti possidetis ended the war but lasted only a short time. A truce was agreed with the condition that the King hand over control of the Tower once again. As part of the truce, Richard agreed to marry Isabella, daughter of Charles VI of France, when she came of age. Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth. In the Battle of Bakhmach, the Legion defeated the Germans and forced them to make a truce. The Egyptian commander at Port Said, General Salahedin Moguy then proposed a truce. Political status for prisoners became an issue after the ending of the truce. While Stalin's death in 1953 slightly relaxed tensions, the situation in Europe remained an uneasy armed truce. Once more pitched battle was avoided, and instead a truce was agreed until December. On 30 October, the truce solicited by Pope Boniface was signed by Edward at Dumfries. Despite this, by 26 July, the Scots were part of the truce that would expire in October. A truce with England during the following few months left Joan with little to do. According to the chronicles of Walter Bower both commanders agreed to a short truce for Easter. At the end of July 1572, after a truce was called, he returned to Edinburgh. The Peace of Middle, agreed on 21 June, established a truce of two years with Llywelyn, who was allowed to retain Cardigan and Builth. Meanwhile, the truce with France in Brittany finally expired, and Henry's ally Duke Peter came under fresh military pressure. Unable to make progress in Scotland, Edward finally signed a truce with Robert. Already in 1609 much of this was accomplished, when a temporary truce was signed with Spain, which would last for 12 years. A day's truce is agreed for burning the dead, during which the Greeks also build their wall and a trench. The 1754 Treaty of Pondicherry which ended the Second Carnatic War had brought a temporary truce to India, but it was soon under threat. Show More Sentences However, both Trajan and Decebalus considered this only a temporary truce, and readied themselves for renewed war. In the event, a truce was agreed upon and the tribes withdrew from Roman territory, but no permanent agreement was reached. Although a truce was signed in 441, two years later Constantinople again failed to deliver the tribute and war resumed. By 1970, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia recognized the republic and a truce was signed. Hernando Pizarro's men formed an uneasy truce with De Almagro's men, surveying to determine the boundaries of their leaders' royal grants. Thoroughly shaken, Philip IV now overruled Olivares and offered an unconditional truce. John Potts worked out a truce with the Powhatan and proposed a toast using liquor laced with poison. In 2011, the government established a truce among many major gangs, lowering the murder rate. Under the terms of this freshly negotiated truce, the Romans marched out with full honours into the territory of their allies, the Cenomani. The ''Subsequent Agreement to the Armistice Agreement'' was signed between the North Korean side and the UNC at the truce village Panmunjom. But anti hunt saboteurs trained in undercover work have been called in by Sea Shepherd to monitor the truce. The first signs of truce happened at Baba Siddiqui's Eid Iftaar a few years ago, when SRK and Salman met and hugged. The Peace of Middle in 1234 marked the end of Llywelyn's military career as the agreed truce of two years was extended year by year for the remainder of his reign. Having temporarily achieved a state of truce with the Crown, the Company continued to expand its influence to nearby territories through threats and coercive actions. Henry's marriage to Margaret of Anjou prompted criticism from Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, because it included the surrender of Maine and an extended truce with France. In 1338, Edward was forced to agree to a truce with the Scots. To Edward, it was imperative that such a war be avoided, and in Paris in 1286 he brokered a truce between France and Aragon that helped secure Charles' release. When Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, came to the assistance of the rebels, Edward negotiated a truce with the earl, the terms of which he later broke. A truce was made between John and Philip to last for two years. Aimeri failed, and John was forced to return to the continent in order to secure his rule, through a truce with Philip II, after Philip had launched attacks on Normandy. Show More Sentences The conference broke up with war appearing likely, but Philip and Richard launched a surprise attack immediately afterwards during what was conventionally a period of truce. By this point in the war, the barons on both sides were eager to avoid an open battle, so members of the clergy brokered a truce, to the annoyance of both Henry and Stephen. Archaeologist John Creighton believes that this anecdote was a legend, and that Commius was sent to Britain as a friendly king as part of his truce with Mark Antony. As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it. They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce. The truce was faltering in what came to be known as the Eighty Years' War, and there was fear over what the attitudes of Spain might be toward them. Shareholders in the WIC dreaded the prospect of a truce in the Americas, which would thwart the plans of that company to stage an invasion of Portuguese Brazil. While Helen tells Priam about the Greek commanders from the walls of Troy, both sides swear a truce and promise to abide by the outcome of the duel. In the afternoon, a German officer with a captured French officer and Belgian soldier, approached under a flag of truce to demand a surrender, which Nicholson refused. Neither side was keen to continue the conflict, and following a papal truce the two leaders met in January 1200 to negotiate possible terms for peace. A truce was arranged, however, before Edward had to decide what to do. A truce was reached once the Great Dam of Marib had suffered a breach. This truce was renewed year by year for the remainder of Llywelyn's reign. The Peace of Middle in 1234 marked the end of Llywelyn's military career, as the agreed truce of two years was extended year by year for the remainder of his reign. Subsequently, Khomeini accepted a truce mediated by the United Nations. On 30 September 1497, James IV's commissioner, the Spaniard Pedro de Ayala concluded a lengthy truce with England, and now the marriage was again a serious possibility. Robert called a Council in September, probably for working out how to proceed when the truce concluded, and to decide how the war was to proceed thereafter. He soon negotiated a truce with Edward until April 1336, during which, various French and Papal emissaries attempted to negotiate a peace between the two countries. In October, Sir Archibald Douglas, now Guardian of Scotland, made a truce with Balliol, supposedly to let the Scottish Parliament assemble and decide who their true king was. By the time a ceasefire was negotiated on 12 June 1935, Paraguay had seized control of most of the region, as was later recognised by the 1938 truce. Show More Sentences The truce did allow those religious pilgrims who were travelling to Olympia to pass through warring territories unmolested because they were protected by Zeus. This cessation of hostilities was known as the Olympic peace or truce. Gelderland, Overijssel, and Utrecht approved the truce, though at least in Utrecht the vast majority of the population was vehemently opposed to the measure. Instead, in 1396, a truce was agreed to, which was to last 28 years. As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce. The view in the Spanish government was that the Truce had been ruinous to Spain in an economic sense. There was continual contact between Maurice and the government in Brussels during 1620 and 1621 regarding a possible renewal of the Truce. Another reason the war did not immediately resume was that king Philip III died shortly before the Truce ended. In 1609, the Twelve Years' Truce was signed between Spain and the United Provinces. This round of fighting, which had little result, was ended by the Truce of Nice. The Dutch and Spanish delegations soon reached an agreement, based on the text of the Twelve Years' Truce. In this view the Truce had enabled the Dutch to gain very unequal advantages in the trade with the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean, owing to their mercantile prowess. By signing the Perpetual Maritime Truce of 1853, Arab rulers gave up their right to wage war at sea in return for British protection against external threats. After the Truce, Maurice failed to achieve more military victories. He completely dominated Dutch politics and diplomacy in his first years afterwards, even monopolising the abortive peace talks before the expiration of the Truce. Immediately after the expiration of the Truce in April 1621, all Dutch ships were ordered out of Spanish ports, and the stringent trade embargoes of before 1609 were renewed. To alleviate conditions, a ceasefire was signed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609, marking the end of the Dutch Revolt and the beginning of the Twelve Years' Truce. If this incident had not come up, the negotiations might well have been successful as a number of the provinces were amenable to simply renewing the Truce on the old terms. Examples from Classical Literature It then became clearly known that a truce of seven months had been agreed to at malm between Prussia and Denmark. In the mean time the Roman army made a truce with the enemy, and bru'tus was proclaimed deliverer of the people. Minerva then persuades Pandarus to break the truce by aiming an arrow at Menelaus. An' since we ondertook ter make ther truce and ter hold it unbroke, hit's done stood unbroke! You were my enemy once, and have since been in a mistrustful truce with me, yet you can doubt that I did this thing. But it was a truce only and there was no indication that it could ever evolve into friendship. She's flying the White Ensign and an admiral's pennant, and, yes, a flag of truce. Nominally a truce for 25 years on the uti possidetis basis, Peace of Karlowitz. The truce of the water was over, but these foes did not meet again that night. After a short battle, olid, hoping for the speedy return of his absent forces, applied for a truce. We shall see if that wooden-headed old fool knows the meaning of a flag of truce. The fresh wind had a cooling effect on them all, and on woodlouse's suggestion a truce was concluded. A truce is then made for the purpose of burying the dead, and the Greeks fortify their camp. Ef thet's true he didn't jest attack a furriner, but he affronted every Stacy an' busted ther truce ter boot! He said to Gondi that all he meant was to get the truce of Cambray accomplished. The grubbers had managed to work out a truce of some kind with at least one form of animal life. In 1471 he was one of the signatories of the truce with the Duke of Brittany. The long truce in the criticism of Trinitarian theology is drawing to its end. Nor have the terms of truce been yet devised, on which the despotic ruler may rely with confidence. Where was only desolation, after countless days the dicentra hangs out its white flags in truce to the warring elements. Show More Sentences Rome was to pay to Persia, during the continuance of the truce, the sum of 30,000 aurei annually. We retired to a room, and in a few moments agreed upon a truce, terminable after forty-eight hours' notice by either party. So that during the time of a truce, the right of postliminium cannot be claimed. The war that followed the truce had seen her Karl's spy in Livonia. The Viceroy of Amoy sent a flag of truce to demand what was wanted. A truce ended the fighting in 1953 and created a Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas. The business of eating interposed a brief truce between the belligerents, but no sooner was supper disposed of than they were at it again. I left New York under a flag of truce, and came to Elizabethtown. At 5.40 the helicon was sent into harbour with a flag of truce. In the meantime the state of affairs was not that of a truce but of a stalemate. The two Koreas are in a technical state of war under a truce after their 1950-53 Korean War. Finally, if a truce is made the suzerain is bound to punish the violators. It is with these that the pioneers of progress can hold no truce. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. Rumor said that the truce in the wahoo Valley was near an end. That Pakistan acted dishonorably in fulfilling its obligations under the truce can hardly be disputed. Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce. Let us have a truce to profitless disputes about what cannot be reversed. When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. A remarkable letter revealing a British general's reluctance to fraternise with German soldiers during the Christmas Day truce in 1914 has been unearthed by archivists. Show More Sentences And now a remarkable letter has revealed a British general's reluctance to fraternise with the enemy during the 1914 Christmas Day truce of the First World War. Caught offguard by the unprecedented retaliation, the Rangers on Wednesday waved a white flag to call a truce after it lost four personnel to Indian fire. At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts. Defeated in a battle between the Houthi rebels and the Ahmar clan of the huge confederation of Hashed tribes, Ahmar representatives in early February 2014 agreed to a truce. It was in 1987, the Great Truce having been dissolved, that the ancient quarrel between France and Germany over Alsace-Lorraine recrudesced. 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What is the opposite of truce? Words that rhyme with truce What is the plural of truce? What is the adjective for truce? What is the noun for truce? Translations for truce Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words trub truants truantry truanting truanted truant truces truck truckage truckdriver trucked trucker 5-letter Words Starting With t tr tru truc