Sentence examples for tense peace from inspiring English sources

As a result, the panel said, the American deterrent that kept a tense peace during the cold war is in danger of losing credibility among allied nations that look to the United States for security.

President Andrés Pastrana broke off tense peace talks with the second-largest rebel force on Tuesday, and today guerrilla leaders harshly criticized the government for "lack of will," while the Bush administration voiced support for the decision.

Truces by the region's main factions including the Irish Republican Army have fueled a tense peace but political efforts to resolve the conflict, which has claimed some 3,600 lives over three decades, have ground to a halt.

The King's remained for a year to support a tense peace until they left for Cyprus.

And of course the French, British, and American governments, not to mention quite a few Arabs, don't want the tense peace of stalemate, they want Gaddafi gone.

Cold war deterrence theory, which relied on containment, intimidation and the sowing of doubt to keep a tense nuclear peace with the Soviet Union, has in the decade since 9/11 been updated and expanded to offer new and effective methods to help keep stateless terrorist cells at bay.

But right now it is a threat with real teeth because a pullout by Mr. Sharansky would endanger Mr. Barak's fragile coalition during a tense round of peace negotiations.

Northern Ireland's Troubles are the subject of two very personal stories: Kevin Myers' Watching the Door, which recounts his experiences as a reporter among loyalist and republican terrorists; and Jonathan Powell's Great Hatred, Little Room, an insider's account of the tense negotiations over peace in the province.

Relations between the Palestinian and Israeli leadership have grown tense since the breakdown of peace talks in September.

Wright, whom only his family need mourn, is more interesting as a type: the man with a talent for fighting who can't adjust to the inevitability of eventual negotiations and the kind of peace, solid but tense, which Northern Ireland currently enjoys.

Several hundred protesters appeared to heed the calls for non-violence late on Tuesday evening, chanting "hands up, don't shoot" and "no justice, no peace" during a tense stand-off with riot police supported by armoured vehicles near the site of Mr Brown's death.