Sentences with phrase «political truce»

The political truce that helped save the Union collapsed last night as David Cameron promised «English votes for English laws» once Scotland is handed new powers.
The election will test the wisdom of an uncomfortable political truce that the Working Families Party reached with Mr. Cuomo in the spring, after it had threatened to run a candidate against him.
As Thorpe shows the Conservatives operated under an initial handicap that party HQs was determined to maintain the political truce and after 1940 Churchill really wasn't interested in party political warfare.
It is an event that is equal parts prayer and politics, where members of both parties laud one another about a temporary political truce, lay down their partisan ammunition, and pause to pray together.
Washington (CNN)-- A political truce may be brewing between the Obama and Romney campaigns on the issue of the candidates» faith and religious practice.

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He contemplates how Labour leaders were heavily involved in the Churchill coalition government and may not have been aware of continuing political activity at the local level despite a so - called electoral truce.
They combined for an afternoon to produce the political equivalent of a Christmas truce on the western front in the first world war.
Mayor de Blasio's aides urged political allies to attack the police unions for their tactics just days before the mayor met with five police union leaders to hammer out a truce, sources revealed Tuesday.
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