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What does truce mean?

truce

(= armistice) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms

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Simple sentences

The truce didn't last long.
Then is it war again, after so long a truce?
The truce did not last long.
Wait, truce!
The truce was broken by gunfire in the Ukraine.

Movie subtitles

I have granted a truce.
A truce?
Why do you grant truce to the infidel?
Now, what brings you here in truce before us?
You ask for the truce of Allah?
Truce of Allah or peace of God, yes.
Did you ever see a white man teach an Indian to walk up under a flag of truce and blast a soldier from a gun hidden under a blanket?
McGlashan, those men were under a flag of truce.
Let's declare a truce and be friends.
It still isn't too late to arrange a truce.
He had some kind of a crazy idea he could arrange a truce.
I only want to arrange a truce.
The war has ended in a truceless truce once more and Richard vanished upon the wind that once made up the better part of him.
Arthur Pendragon, you asked for this truce.
There's going to be a truce.
His Highness Surat Khan, amir of Suristan sends greetings to His Excellency, the commandant of Chukoti and humbly proposes a truce.
A truce party, milord.
Mother and I have an armed truce.
Colonel, I want you to go along with these two officers on a flag of truce.
Suppose then, for the time being, we call a truce. As scientists at least, Meacham.
Our only respite, a truce to burn our dead.
The terms of this truce were clear.
Can we have a truce?
I suggest that we swallow our pride and Sir Hideyori himself visit the Shogun's family in Edo to ask for truce.
Why should our lord travel to Edo asking for truce?
I'm going to ask Sir Kodan-in to mediate for truce between Toyotomi and Tokugawa.
A truce is merely the seed for an even bloodier battle. You got that?
But boss, what about our truce?
The best time is after the attack when there's a truce to get the wounded.
The United Nations requested a general truce effective the morning of June 11.
They're just playing for time till the truce.
I had to truce the king Goodthought - and promise him. - That when his only daughter grows up, your only son will marry her that the kingdoms will be joined not to ever give a reason for war.
We'll call a truce.
Mr. Oxmyx, I understood we had an arrangement, a truce.
The Klingons claim to have honoured the truce but there have been incidents, raids on our outposts.
However, it is notoriously difficult to arrange a truce with the Klingons once blood has been drawn.

News and current affairs

That is why the UK's Financial Services Authority, and even the Confederation of British Industry, which speaks largely for non-financial firms concerned about access to credit, has begun to call for a truce between the authorities and financial markets.
But, unless the Arabs reconcile themselves to the permanent reality of a Jewish state in Palestine, the creation of a Palestinian Arab state will not provide more than the temporary palliative of a tenuous truce between Arabs and Jews.
TEL AVIV - Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.
The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness.
Opponents of the truce predict, - indeed, wish - that it will be short-lived.
Of course, like previous ceasefires, any truce is likely to be temporary, inevitably undermined by the forces that perpetuate Israel's armed conflict with Hamas.
Such a truce is possible.
This happened after the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996), but the peace that ensued was merely an armed truce.
It could if it ushered in a Palestinian national unity government and an agreement to an extended truce backed by a strong international military presence.
Moreover, while Hamas's long truce with Israel shows that it may be willing to abandon violence given the right amount of persuasion, it can make itself a terrible nuisance if it continues to be excluded.
International peacekeepers should enforce such a truce.
If Lebanon's political forces and Nasrallah's followers cannot get him to revert to a truce, Israel will bomb more targets, including Nasrallah's offices in south Beirut.
Those confrontations ended with a truce of sorts - though skirmishes have continued - because US forces have been reluctant to fight Sunni insurgents and Shi'a militiamen at the same time.
To be sure, even if, beginning today, we start working for such a lasting truce, there will inevitably be further days of war ahead.
I believe, instead, that it is a false truce in what will become a pitched battle for the soul of American politics.
As a result, much now hangs on the ECB's actions - and how long they will be sufficient to maintain a truce with financial markets.
To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.
Future workers from Gaza, having a moral right to earn their living in Israel, will become natural supporters of the maintenance of the truce.
This secret truce was maintained even after Mexico's first open democratic presidential election in 2000, when the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party was ousted from power.
Given this mission, it would seem that the IMF should help extract concessions from China and the rest of the world should declare a truce.
For the time being, Israel should strive for the safest truce it can accomplish, provided that Hamas stops shooting out of its own crowded living room.
Morsi's timing was remarkable: the day after winning international acclaim for his successful efforts to broker a truce in Gaza, he staged a frontal assault on Egypt's nascent democracy.
In the US, President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans have for now agreed on a truce to avoid the threat of another government shutdown over the need to raise the debt ceiling.
Regardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining intensity.

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