to negotiate a truce

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• truce — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, temporary ▪ A temporary truce had been reached earlier that year. ▪ permanent ▪ three day, week long, etc …   Collocations dictionary

• negotiate — verb 1 try to reach an agreement ADVERB ▪ carefully ▪ a carefully negotiated series of concessions ▪ successfully ▪ effectively ▪ individually …   Collocations dictionary

• negotiate */*/ — UK [nɪˈɡəʊʃɪeɪt] / US [nəˈɡoʊʃɪˌeɪt] verb Word forms negotiate : present tense I/you/we/they negotiate he/she/it negotiates present participle negotiating past tense negotiated past participle negotiated 1) [intransitive/transitive] to try to… …   English dictionary

• negotiate — [[t]nɪgo͟ʊʃieɪt[/t]] ♦♦ negotiates, negotiating, negotiated 1) V RECIP If people negotiate with each other or negotiate an agreement, they talk about a problem or a situation such as a business arrangement in order to solve the problem or… …   English dictionary

• negotiate — 01. It took over 3 months of [negotiating] for the union and management to reach a first contract. 02. [Negotiations] between the government and nurses are going well, and hospitals should be back to normal by tomorrow. 03. A police [negotiator]… …   Grammatical examples in English

• negotiate — ne|go|ti|ate [ nə gouʃi,eıt ] verb ** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation: The two sides have yet to show their willingness to… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Watts Truce — The Watts Truce was a peace agreement among rival street gangs in Los Angeles. Although not universally adhered to, the truce was a major component of the decline of street violence in the city during the 1990s.It was declared between warring… …   Wikipedia

• international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …   Universalium

• Kingdom of Jerusalem — Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Regnum Hierosolimitanum Roiaume de Jherusalem Regno di Gerusalemme Βασίλειον τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων مملكة بيت المقدس ממלכת ירושלים ← …   Wikipedia

• Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384) — Lithuanian Civil War of 1381–1384 Part of Vytautas–Jogaila power struggle …   Wikipedia

• Birmingham campaign — inspired international support for the demonstrators.cite journal url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm04.html title=Birmingham 1963 work=100 Photographs that Changed the World publisher= Life , reproduced in The Digital Journalist… …   Wikipedia