Sentence examples for a truce from from inspiring English sources

Some Palestinian officials contended that the raid was a premeditated Israeli attempt to keep a truce from taking hold in order to avoid subsequent political negotiations.

His dangerous campaign, concerted with the count of Flanders in 1297, met defeat from a French force led by Robert of Artois, and during a truce from 1297 to 1303 the rival monarchs reestablished the status quo ante.

The ceasefire, part of a six-point plan put forward by Mr Annan and accepted by the Syrian government earlier this month, requires President Assad to begin his withdrawal of troops and tanks by tomorrow, before a truce from both sides within 48 hours.

A day after Israel rejected another feeler for a truce from Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, an Israeli deputy prime minister, Haim Ramon, said that the idea was an indication that Israel's policies, pairing military action with an economic blockade, were working in Gaza.

"Their coach wants a truce from what I've heard.

"Before Munich", he said, "it was believed that the Olympics were in the framework of the ancient world; that there was a truce from all armed activity.

Little progress was visible, though hundreds of civilians were evacuated under a recent truce from the rebel-held and long-besieged part of the city of Homs.Sectarian mayhem in the Central African Republic persisted, prompting a French general recently in charge of the peacekeeping force there to say it should be much reinforced if it is to have a chance of restoring peace.

There are strong reasons to think that a threat of sufficient magnitude to force the Syrian to a truce would suffer from credibility problems.

In a golf clubhouse far from the violence still convulsing their homelands, the Israelis and the Palestinians did not succeed by early this morning in hammering out a truce despite assistance from several world leaders including President Clinton.

The circumstances leading to the capture and execution of the Barri clan members were not clear, but it appeared to follow a street battle on Tuesday that flared up after what antigovernment activists said was a truce between fighters from the two groups.

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