Sentence examples for detente of from inspiring English sources
It was a detente of sorts.
It is difficult to know where this uneasy transatlantic detente of 2008 will lead.
The worst possible developments in Laos seem to have been averted, and a detente of sorts seems to be in the making.
The most that is likely to result, if talks take place at all, is some family reunions and a return to the detente of a year ago.
When the shortlived "Persian detente" of the latter Clinton years changed to the "axis of evil" mantra of the junior Bush administration, Dubai demurred accordingly.
I love the detente of a yellow cab.
Some scented a whiff of detente on February 26th, when the Supreme Court ruled on the family fortune of the former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.
The Issues Era of Detente, Years of Tension The Administration's plans for new strategic weapons were first conceived in earlier administrations, when American-Soviet relations were tense and the Soviet military was entrenched in Eastern Europe.
Ford declined to meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, probably the world's foremost opponent of detente, & incarnation of the American principles that justify its rivalry with Russia.
The policy of detente, supported most of the time by the entire western alliance, involved engaging the other side at all levels for reasons that were extensively debated at the time and have been largely vindicated by history.
The story begins when the director of Le Guide explains to Pamplemousse that all arrangements for the detente voyage of the dirigible have been made--except for food.
