Sentences with phrase «year truce»

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.

Susan Dennard: The Witchlands is an ongoing epic fantasy series set on a continent where magic is failing and unrest is growing as a twenty year truce ends between three warring empires comes to a close.

In the month of Shawwal in the third year the Meccans took their revenge, and for the next few years actions and counteractions followed until in the sixth year a ten - year truce was concluded.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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.

In the year A.H. 8 the Meccans broke the truce, and this time the Prophet marched victoriously into the capital.

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.

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.

The endorsements also come as mainline Democrats in the state Senate are avoiding support for IDC challengers as an uneasy truce remains in effect stemming for a unity deal agreed to last year that would be triggered if Democrats win a pair of special elections scheduled for April 24.

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.

Cuomo announced a plan to restore voting rights to 35,000 parolees and helped broker a truce in a years - long standoff between rogue and mainline Democrats in the state Senate.

Though Democrats sought to broker a truce last year, Klein declined to form an alliance with the mainline conference.

This year, they declared a holiday truce.

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.

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.

This year there were words indicating a truce, although since the Republican caucus Republican Chairman Joe Roberti Jr. has been noticeably quiet.

After years of watching the cancer relentlessly take her beloved devils, Jones has seen some tentative signs of a truce between the devils and the tumor.

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.

For those three days, he would drink milk like he wasn't afraid, like he hadn't spent the past eight years negotiating a careful truce with his digestive system.

A truce normally marked the Lunar New Year (Tet), but in 1968, the NLF broke the truce in order to launch the largest battle of the war: The Tet Offensive.

Flash forward twenty years from the present and the long human - dog truce (the «Age of Obedience») has broken down due to lingering human prejudice and the spread of «snout fever,» a rabies - like disease that gives Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) an excuse to deport all dogs to an uninhabited island trash heap.

An uneasy truce between the villagers and the enigmatic denizens of the surrounding forest has been in place for an unspecified time, unbroken «for many years».

These outstanding resources on the Christmas Truce in 1914 are a great lesson no matter the time of year, but they make a particularly moving, touc...

After months of tense meetings that included a lawsuit and a walkout, it seems as though Ritz and the other board members have called a truce: The last State Board meeting of the year ended amicably with an agreement on new operating procedures.

You may wonder, old Mortal Kombat fan, what kind of cooperative action the game would have, or just how these two ninjas who've repeatedly dismembered and maimed each other over the years would come to a truce.

She immediately set about persuading the Crystal Orthodoxy and the Duchy of Eternia to form a peace and, following years of animosity and endless effort on Agnès» part, a truce between the two is finally near.

Perhaps Google is hoping that the threat of losing YouTube on its main streaming device will force Amazon to negotiate a truce both sides can live with before the new year.

Last weekend, I took on an informal mediation between my husband and his mother to see if I could orchestrate a truce or at least change the dynamic between them so that next year may bring a less stressful holiday season.

Diane E. Levin, PhD, is professor of early childhood education at Wheelock College, in Boston, and cofounder of TRUCE and Defending the Early Years.