Sentences with phrase «fragile truce»

It feels like living in the Gulf Coast is a fragile truce with mother nature that can break without provocation.

The labor leader's remarks were startling given that Mayor Bill de Blasio has negotiated a fragile truce with the independently managed, publicly funded charter schools.

A second round of mass - market facial computers looks less likely to inspire public anger than Google's Glass but it will be a fragile truce, says Jamais Cascio

Just listen to the plot: Thor disobeys his father Odin, King of the realm of Asgard, and confronts the Frost Giants of Jotunheim, destroying a fragile truce.

While a fragile truce is eventually formed between humans and apes — a loose and brief understanding brokered by Malcolm and Caesar — fear, ignorance and mistrust on both sides threaten to destroy goodwill at every turn.

Petty plays the unforgiving tensions between the settlers and the native tribes with palpable animosity, the distrust so great that their fragile truce snaps before they even take on the burrowers, the underground creatures that have been hunting on the prairie.

A fragile truce may revert to war unless two unlikely young women can put aside their initial enmity and find the source of a series of bizarre attacks.

They have a fragile truce but due to their seething disgust of each other they still pit their warriors against each other in arenas rather than on the fields of war.