Truce in example sentence

With a truce between the government and the opposition shattered only hours after it came into effect, and with dozens of people reported killed in recent days, any hope for an end to the country’s deepening civil disorder appears to be fading fast.

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In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce, no draw, no compromise, only victory or defeat.

Consider the World War I Christmas truce of 1914.

The powers that be had negotiated a brief truce so that soldiers could go out, collect bodies from no-man's-land in between the trench lines.

That truce kept going until the officers had to arrive and said, "We will shoot you unless you go back to trying to kill each other."

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