Sentence examples for by truce from inspiring English sources

Some Palestinian officials said they no longer felt bound by truce agreements, and paramilitary leaders promised revenge.

Much of life, for Glück, is livable only when hostile factions lay aside their arms; it is a view of social life as driven not by altruism but by truce, and it was formed in that home.

Between 1543 and 1562 the war in Hungary continued, broken by truces and with few notable changes on either side; the most important was the Ottoman capture of the Banat of Temesvár (Timișoara) in 1532.

Defining a Military Victory But the government's successes in Basra and Sadr City were not so much victories as heavy fighting followed by truces that allowed the militias to melt away with their weapons.

The troublesome south-eastern border with the Ottoman Empire was temporarily quelled by truces signed in July 1577 and April 1579.

The Fatimids (and after the 950s the Kalbid hereditary governors) continued the tradition of jihad, both against the Christian strongholds in the northeast (the Val Demone) and, more prominently, against the Byzantine possessions in southern Italy, punctuated by truces.

The idea of a radical renovation of liberties in the cities did not suit the powers of North Italy, who had been in league against the Visconti territorial gains in a decades-long series of wars interrupted by truces, most recently the Peace of Cremona of 20 November 1441.

Gaza had its quietest night in weeks after a weekend punctuated by brief truce initiatives offered by both Israel and Hamas.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that it had received not a single report of combatants or civilians killed by fighting in any areas covered by the truce.

It is bounded by the truce line (demilitarized zone) with North Korea (north), by the provinces of Kangwŏn (Gangwon; east) and North Kyŏngsang (North Gyeongsang) and South Ch'ungch'ŏng (South Chungcheong; south), and by the Yellow Sea (west).

Residents of the neighbourhood were said to be "overjoyed" by the truce.