Sentence examples for a respite in from inspiring English sources

If so "the surge will have bought a respite in Baghdad's violence but not the end".

It provided only a respite in the flow of the game which was mostly towards Mignolet's goal.

But the joy had a fearful quality: this day of celebration is a respite in a battle that must continue.

Even with a respite in fuel prices, skeptics might ask why these sedans' creators are partying as if it's 1999.

Maybe the former folk museum could become a respite in the future Modern — or its galleries a refuge for photographs or drawings or design objects.

The Queens homage provides a respite, in the form of the full-voiced La Tanya Hall, who zips through a harmless, jazzy number by Karen Kandel.

Hodgson, who was jailed at Winchester crown court in 1982, now lives in a respite home in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.

For now, Spuntino is a welcome respite in an area that needs one, an oasis of good wine and decent, unpretentious cooking.

Its widely publicized involvement in the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann brought only a temporary respite in a long period of decline.

A relatively mild winter in the Northeast has helped cities and states save hundreds of thousands of dollars in snow-removal costs, a welcome respite in a tough economic climate.

Both winters, though, were mercifully short, a rare respite in an otherwise withering and relentless campaign that has transformed the modern face of Syria's biggest city and left those who remain in a fight for survival.