"tentative truce" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe an agreement or understanding between two parties which is not considered permanent or fully reliable. For example, "After weeks of difficult negotiations, the two countries finally reached a tentative truce in the conflict."
Even before the ambush on Wednesday, the tentative truce negotiated by General Zinni had been ruptured by violence.
Russian natural gas resumed flowing through Belarus to Europe at normal levels on Thursday, as Belarus and Russia announced a tentative truce in their four-day energy dispute.
The modern novel, for example, delineated the tensions of this modern encounter between public and private, enacting their collision and occasionally negotiating a tentative truce.
But Danny Yatom, Prime Minister Ehud Barak's top security adviser, said this afternoon that it was too early to judge whether the tentative truce would take hold.
Doctors and health insurers called a tentative truce Tuesday in their longstanding dispute over how health plans rank doctors' efforts in taking care of patients.
MOSCOW--Russian natural gas started flowing back through pipelines into Europe at normal levels on Thursday, as Belarus and Russia announced a tentative truce in their four-day energy dispute.
The tentative nature of the newly brokered truce means that the large proportion of Israelis who reside in the southern part of the country are resigned to a future of rocket fire into their neighborhoods.
The comments by Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday appeared to signal a tentative advance in talks aimed at reaching a truce, but the insistence that Assad must go will do little to smooth negotiations with Russia, his biggest backer.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, prompting Israel to cancel truce talks and jeopardizing the Bush administration's tentative overture to restoring relations with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader.
A tentative ceasefire is holding in most parts of Syria as the truce's main backer, Russia, pushes for a United Nations resolution, which it says would start a political process that could quickly take the steam out of six years of war.
