Sentences with phrase «truce on»

How to Call a Truce on Office Temperatures Differing opinions on an ideal office temperatures can send tempers running hot.

Frankly, however, I don't see any truce on the horizon.

(CNN)- In a new web video released Thursday potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitch Daniels called his suggestion that potential Republican candidates declare a truce on social issues in the next election «a tactical suggestion.»

Washington (CNN)-- Potential Republican presidential candidate Mitch Daniels defended his call for a truce on social issues in the 2012 election, stressing the importance of those with different viewpoints coming together to solve the country's economic problems.

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

UPDATE: Eric Dinallo's campaign spokeswoman, Lauren Passalacqua, provided this response to Schneiderman's call for a truce on the trail:

With a little sense of humor, and a lot of understanding, you can be the first to call a truce on the age old mommy wars.

The dialogue between science and religion in the past has resulted in no more than a truce on the battlefields.

By calling a truce on wars over «culture,» and start fighting to save relationships with neighbors, no matter what they believe.

My story is about leaving the boxing gloves behind, about calling a truce on the culture wars that have left so many people beaten and bruised and left for dead by those who claim to follow a crucified Savior.

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

A truce on the social issues has never been an option — and it surely isn't now.

«My generation of evangelicals is ready to call a truce on the culture wars,» I said.

Not exact matches

Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another.

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

Perhaps the best way to sum up the truce was said by a British soldier whose letter to the Carlisle Journal was published on January 5, 1915:

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

There is scant evidence for Christmas Truce events beyond a few isolated incidents on the Western Front.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in on Friday declared they would take steps to formally end the 1950 - 53 Korean War, which ended only with a truce, and work towards the «denuclearisation» of the Korean peninsula.

Fears that the chief of staff could be on his way out were kept at bay, however, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump and Kelly settled on a temporary «truce.»

Khosrowshahi is being called a «truce» choice because Travis Kalanick reportedly favored GE's Jeff Immelt (who withdrew on Sunday) while Benchmark favored Whitman (who was back in the running, despite denying it in July)

China retaliated against proposed U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods by targeting high - value American exports, from airplanes to soybeans, in a tactic Beijing officials say is meant to secure a truce.

At the historic summit on Friday, the leaders of the two Koreas also made an agreement to declare the end of the 1950 - 1953 Korean War later this year and move from the existing truce to a peace agreement, the Korean Central News Agency said.

Washington (CNN)-- A political truce may be brewing between the Obama and Romney campaigns on the issue of the candidates» faith and religious practice.

I live in Ghana, and over the past 8 years imams during their Tafsir during the fasting month attacked one another, and just this year where truce was brokered their attention fell on Christianity, and the «bashing» was just forthcoming.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Now, in view of the widespread rejection — sometimes explicit, sometimes oblique — of the November 4 Vatican instruction on homosexuality and the priesthood, the question is asked whether we should be preparing ourselves for «The Truce of 2005.»

In his thoughtful essay on homosexuality and the priesthood («The Truce of 2005?»

It was no surprise, then, that the now infamous «truce» proposal floated last year by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was an unpopular one in the auditorium at Point of Grace Church on Monday.

Both states, from sheriff to governor, are now conducting conferences on how to effect a truce.

One labor leader recently suggested a truce might be in the offing, but I haven't seen much public movement on that front, either.

Six weeks ago I was appointed to serve on a new select committee in the House of Lords assessing the legacy of the of the Olympic & Paralympic Games and during its early sittings I began to think what the legacy could be of the London 2012 Olympic truce.

While there have been some federal initiatives to discourage some subsidies, and some attempts at regional truces to reduce interstate arms races, there has been no comprehensive federal restriction on such incentives.

A former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has called for a truce between anti-corruption crusaders Martin Amidu and Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

On Wednesday afternoon in his Manhattan office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sat between two formerly sworn Democratic rivals — Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Senator Jeffrey D. Klein — and declared a truce in their seven - year civil war, one that has intensified since the election of President Trump.

Miner defends her police strategy, noting that Operation Truce, which has gone after gangs and uses technology like police cameras on corners, has gone a long way in keep citizens safe.

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

Mr Corbyn could move to appoint his own shadow cabinet, slighting MPs who wanted a say on its members as a price for a truce

Speaking in Owerri on Monday night during a meeting with Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, when he led a truce team of North governors to the state, Shettima said the threats posed by IPOB is worse.

The apparent truce comes after weeks of escalating talk and action on both sides.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

«An uneasy truce between Unite and the Labour leadership after Ed Miliband's decision to abandon an inquiry into voting malpractice in Falkirk was threatening to fray on Sunday amid claims that witnesses had been bullied into dropping accusations and a claim by a Labour MP that Unite threatened to stop # 3m in party donations unless an apology was given.»

But on the election day, while 51 APC senators were at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, waiting for a truce meeting called by the party leadership and Buhari, Saraki avoided the meeting and was unanimously voted for as the Senate President by 57 senators who were in attendance.

Unite cried «foul» and hinted that Labour had exaggerated on purpose for their own ends; local witnesses suddenly, fortuitously, withdrew testimonies; and by party conference an uneasy truce was in place between Labour and Unite, both saying «move along, nothing to see».

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.

An arizona law firm that provoked a storm by sending out a flood of advertising messages on the Internet has negotiated a temporary truce in its use of the global network.

Well, the Western focuses, for the first half at least, on two different bounty hunters who come to a truce when they meet potential rivals on the way to Red Rock.

And giving Murphy and Stiller one last emotional beat together — whether it was a warm buddy - buddy moment or an uneasy truce — would also have allowed Ratner to explore some of the race and class issues his movie only begins to touch on.