Sentence examples for for truce from inspiring English sources

This was a coded call for truce.

But appellate litigators, like Cruz, generally appear after the time for truce has passed.

The European Union is also pursuing efforts to bring the two sides together for truce talks.

Both sides were still discussing plans for truce talks tentatively set for today.

The rocket, which fell harmlessly in the occupied West Bank, triggered warning sirens in the holy city about the time Ban arrived in Jerusalem for truce discussions.

"It is the proper time for hudna," Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas leader, said in an interview today, using the Arabic word for truce.

Jabari, Benn argued, was in effect Israel's point man in a money-for-truce exchange that worked imperfectly.

In the Decembers of 1916 and 1917, German overtures to the British for truces were recorded without any success.

Eventually, in 1568, the Dutch revolted, setting off a war which continued, with a few pauses for truces, until 1648.

Early on 19 August 636, the fifth day of the battle, Vahan sent an emissary to the Muslim camp for a truce for the next few days so that fresh negotiations could be held.

786 809), resulted in a humiliating settlement for Byzantium, which was forced to sue for a truce in exchange for an annual payment of 160,000 gold nomismata.