Sentence examples for truce to allow from inspiring English sources

The Greeks instituted a "sacred truce" to allow athletes and spectators to get to the festival, quite a feat in a land constantly torn by internal warfare.

Dujarric said the U.N. continued to call for a humanitarian truce to allow for the provision of emergency services and the voluntary passage of civilians, including the wounded.

However, he changed his mind after a last-ditch plea from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges for both sides to stage a five-day truce to allow time-limited fresh talks.

The National Liberation Front rebel group said it had agreed to a truce to allow the United Nations to conduct health programs for children later this month and in September.

Two days after the kidnapping of a soccer official, President Andrés Pastrana asked Colombia's armed insurgent groups for a truce to allow next month's Copa America tournament to go on.

Hamas and Israel have agreed five more days' truce to allow further talks after a tense final countdown to the end of the current 72-hour ceasefire on Wednesday night.

Previous attempts at truces to allow humanitarian agencies in to help the wounded and displaced have failed to materialise.

The UN plans call on all sides to de-escalate the violence through local truces to allow for the movement of humanitarian aid.

The Yemen conflict is currently frozen under the terms of an April 10 truce meant to allow U.N.-backed peace talks between the Houthi rebels and the government.

Warring sides in Afghanistan have agreed to a three-day truce next month to allow a polio immunization drive, the United Nations Children's Fund said today.

The brief truce was called to allow restocking with food, water and other essentials by the many Palestinians who have been trapped in their houses for days.