Sentence examples for tenuous peace from inspiring English sources

The rule of the Kadyrovs has brought a tenuous peace to Chechnya.

It felt then like a fragile turning point, a tenuous peace that could easily be interrupted.

'Leave' voters don't care about the tenuous peace process, but the E.U. does.

The regions settled into a tenuous peace monitored by Russian peacekeepers.

The tenuous peace in the north did not last very long, as Tuareg rebel activity resumed in 2007.

Without effective international support for Congo's tenuous peace accord there is every likelihood of a wider war.

It has also been involved in tenuous peace negotiations with the Philippine government for more than a decade.

Last fall the United Nations sent a peacekeeping force to carry out a tenuous peace accord and disarm the combatants.

After all, exactly a week earlier, on a similarly fragrant blue spring Sunday afternoon, bullets and rocket-propelled grenades had loudly rained down on this district from one of the three squads of insurgents who had climbed into half-finished tower blocks and launched attacks, paralyzing the city for 18 hours and giving a reminder of just how tenuous the peace is here.

The quartet is comprised of four key groups credited with holding the tenuous Tunisian peace together: Tunisian General Labor Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League; and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.

"Manchester by the Sea" — Kenneth Lonergan, meanwhile, doesn't offer much hope for his heartsick characters, just a tenuous sense of peace.