| No Greek state was allowed to fight during the truces proclaimed for the celebration of the Olympic and other Panhellenic Games. |
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| Before she married on her 21st birthday, she negotiated over a hundred treaties, truces and allegiances. |
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| Gangs make alliances, keep delicate truces or live as sworn enemies with each other. |
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| Civil war continued, punctuated by innumerable truces and lulls. |
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| The narrative sources in particular are full of accounts of embassies and special meetings to arrange truces or conclude peace between warring bands. |
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| According to contemporary reports, at several of the truces, there were rough soccer matches between the German and British sides. |
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| 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. |
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| Unilateral truces never work and we have ample history to prove that. |
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| Still, the urge to seek a return to normalcy remains powerful, he said, and could drive more people in Syria toward the truces. |
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| Despite truces between England and Scotland there were periodic outbreaks of a guerre de course. |
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| He ignored truces with England and was determined to stand by his ally Philip VI during the early years of the Hundred Years' War. |
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| It lasted until 1133, interrupted by several truces that were sometimes observed and sometimes violated. |
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| These were sheikhdoms forced to accept truces in the early nineteenth century with the British navy, which was determined to end their proclivity for piracy. |
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| However, David II rejected the peace proposal and any further truces. |
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| The warring parties arranged long truces, during which the French king prepared for the renewal of war, while the English relaxed and took a break from fresh taxes. |
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| Some of the truces were just a head nod in agreement not to fight for a day, while many involved fraternization, meaning the troops visited with each other. |
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