Sentence examples for the only truce from inspiring English sources

When Alexander the Great tried to seize Halicarnassus, the ancient capital of the region (now the town of Bodrum), he found it so well defended that he was forced to ask for the only truce of his conquering campaign.

The only recent truce negotiated with any sort of parity was reached over two Shi'ite, pro-regime towns stranded in the rebel-held area of Idlib, and two Sunni towns held by rebels and encircled by regime forces and Hizbullah along the Lebanese border.

He said the only way to strengthen the truce was to release prisoners from all Palestinian factions.

Since November mayors from both the FMLN and Arena have complained that federal cash to support the programmes has not materialised.Yet such initiatives may be the only way to turn a temporary truce into something more permanent.

In France, meanwhile, the greater level of press censorship ensured that the only word that spread of the truce came from soldiers at the front or first-hand accounts told by wounded men in hospitals.

The Dutch had used the truce only to capture the carrying trade with Spain of western Europe and the Baltic, Zúñiga argued.

But the truce was only verbal – so, of course, there were some misunderstandings.

If the eventual truce took shape here, it wouldn't be the only one to have done so.

Before this week's sudden peaceful truce, which will see the two companies integrate their cloud services, the only clouds that connected the two were dark and frowny ones.

The only success we have had was the process we developed from March 2012 to May 2013, which was called a truce".

The agreement is likely to be only a truce in the battle.