Sentences with phrase «tenuous peace»

The long - warring races of a galaxy have agreed to a tenuous peace in order to meet a greater threat.
The killings have stopped since Shahrazad became queen, but it is a tenuous peace.
The heroic Sigurd slays a dragon, descends into the underworld, and rules over a tenuous peace in a postapocalyptic Britain peopled with genetic mutants.
Notwithstanding his tenuous peace with Skelos, his Republican support is far from solid.

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In a sign of the tenuous nature of the state Senate Democratic peace deal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters he could forgo calling special elections, which would push off the replacement of departing Democratic Sens. Ruben Diaz Sr. and George Latimer until next November.
His themes are incredibly relevant to the dilemmas we face today: Should we confront the things that threaten us and try to defeat them, or should we retreat, sacrificing even truth if it is necessary to enjoy a precious, if tenuous, peace?
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