Residents of villages like Talawka, with 4,000 households and just a few miles from the front line at Gor Tepa, are not taking their shaky moment of respite for granted.
In a statement, MGM said it has been granted a respite from interest fee payments until 31 January 2010.
Gardner found shelter in the form of a trusty BBC World studio, where he was granted sufficient respite to study the reports in detail.
While José Mourinho and Brendan Rodgers joined Wenger among the week's targets, Louis van Gaal and Manuel Pellegrini were granted a respite that will probably turn out to be brief.
The penultimate stage ended in the village of Chuksang, where we smelled the first greenery for several days, and were granted brief respite from Mustang's winds in the sheltered courtyard of the Lotus hotel.
The Interregnum granted some respite to the Common Pleas, which abolished fines on original writs, hurting the King's Bench, but in 1660 the fines were reinstated and "then the very attorneys of the Common Pleas boggled at them and carried all their finable business to the King's Bench".
President Mahinda Rajapaksa explicitly resisted calls for ceasefire, fearing it would grant respite to the rebels.
Another translation of the Anglo-Norman word feindre is "pretend, feign, turn a blind eye to", which is what the more powerful child does whilst granting respite.
As it turns out, some Dish Network customers have been granted a bit of respite from that advertising onslaught.
She was obsolescent by World War I and was slated to be broken up in 1914 15, but the need for warships granted Emanuele Filiberto a respite.
