Sentences with word «truce»

He lives with his mother in Truce in the Present.

More thoughtful people, however, have to negotiate some kind of truce between these conflicting worlds, and this results in «cognitive bargaining,» which typically means trimming religious truth claims to fit the «real world» of relentlessly secular modernity.

The Sainsbury's Christmas advert depicting the Christmas Truce of 1914 carries a hidden political message: avoiding war means sticking with the European Union.

Assuming one has managed to arrive at some kind of uneasy truce with the sheer stupidity of something as silly as football having this much money floating around — and since you're here, dear reader, you probably have — then what does it matter that Stupid Amount A is four times the size of Stupid Amount B?

After seeing something like this, you just hope these two called truce — and ended up giving the bat to a kid.

But when reconciliation is defined in terms of transformation, the result we hope for within the churches is more than an uneasy truce in the ongoing cold war between baptized Democrats and Republicans.

They combined for an afternoon to produce the political equivalent of a Christmas truce on the western front in the first world war.

One of the three denizens from Truce Village in the year 1000 A.D., Lucca is Crono's best friend and a scientific genius.

He also called for truce in the NPP saying «for the good of the nation let's put these decision aside get a campaign manager and let's get struggle to get the campaign going.»

In Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914, John Hendrix offers a moving account of the holiday ceasefire achieved by soldiers fighting at the French - Belgian border.

Hamas has been firing rockets indiscriminately into Israeli territory since a six - month, Egyptian - brokered truce ended on December 19th, killing four civilians.

President Barack Obama and the Republican - led Congress reached an agreement last December on a 2 - year spending plan that was supposed to lead to a temporary truce in the annual federal budget wars.

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

A couple of days after arriving, I saw a poster advertising a tile exhibition at the Barbican, in celebration of the 600 - year truce between England and Portugal.

This uneasy truce lasted until September, with some even thinking it a marketing ploy, but soon after MGSV was released the acrimony bubbled to the surface — Kojima finished at Konami on 9 October, with his leaving party scooped by the New Yorker, before being barred from accepting a gong at The Game Awards in early December.

Although last month's public handshake signified a political truce between Mr Odinga and his arch-rival President Uhuru Kenyatta, and brought calm and a sense of relief in Kenya following last year's disputed elections, opposition supporters have been frozen since 9 March and are waiting for a sign from their leader.

Artist Matt Copson's A Woodland Truce with music by Felicita and vocal performances by Musarc, inaugurated the series.

A 72 hour truce in Gaza appears to be holding after a fresh ceasefire deal was agreed between Hamas and... More

Between Good Friday 2011 and February 15th, 2012 I walked nearly 3,000 miles from Olympia in Greece to London to highlight the possibilities of the Olympic truce for London 2012.

Caesar agrees to help them, but warring factions on both sides — including Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) who is preparing an arsenal in San Francisco to protect his fellow humans, and Koba (Toby Kebbell), an ape who wants revenge for being kept in a cage — will trigger betrayals and a broken truce.

A three - day truce between Israel and Hamas has been agreed with further peace talks due to take place... More

The uneasy truce struck between protestors and the Ukrainian government fell apart altogether yesterday, leaving an estimated 35 more dead after a bout of violent, fiery protests.

When we come to it When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders And our children can dress their dolls in flags of truce When land mines of death have been removed And the aged can walk into evenings of peace When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh And childhood dreams are not kicked awake By nightmares of sexual abuse

An uneasy truce exists between the two groups.

Although their life in the late 18th century seems simple, the truth is the Village only survives because of an uneasy truce which exists between them and some mysterious creatures that live in the surrounding forest.

With a tenuous truce in place between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the Acholi people of northern Uganda pray for lasting peace and for hope.

The joint statement Friday, from the border truce village of Panmunjom, concluded a historic one - day bilateral summit aimed at achieving peace between the longtime adversaries for the first time in more than sixty years.

A fantasy - adventure, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200 - year - old truce between two...

Syracuse TRUCE started two years ago, as a collaboration between police and community service organizations with the aim of reducing gun violence in the city.

Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler says the Syracuse Truce will send a message to perpetrators.

Labour's Roundheads and Cavaliers may just co-exist in an uncomfortable truce.

He knows that once the Allies close in, there'll be no hope of reaching a satisfactory truce from Germany's perspective.

But 100 years later, the Christmas Truce remains a bright spot in an otherwise bleak conflict that ushered in many aspects of modern war.

Hopes of a resolution were dashed when Ukraine declared an end to the so - called Easter truce earlier this week.

Or here, as the Greeks and Trojans under truce settle down to watch the duel between Menelaos and Paris:

Look around... where Muslims are weak demographically and politically, they will propose truce.

If there was any precarious truce left standing between Israel and Hamas since the last major conflict over the Gaza strip four years ago, it has been destroyed in the past few days as rockets and air strikes have been launched from both sides.

PW writes: The morning's papers report a «sullen and potentially unstable truce has been struck» (the Guardian).

A version of this article appears in print on August 22, 1994, on Page A00001 of the National edition with the headline: D'Amato's Push for Pataki Ends a Long Cuomo Truce.

Commonwealth Games 2014: Politicians squabble over who gets benefits as unofficial truce collapses 4 August 2014

Two homicides towards the end of 2015 resulted in what is being called a «Truce trigger.»

Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch - shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition.

Verdun's Christmas Truce DLC quiets things down for the holidays.

The Christmas Truce idea is beloved by many, beyond football fans, for its hint that, beneath the horror, British and Germans were just ordinary men cast into the maelstrom of unprecedented bloodshed.