1.   Fortunately, the only politics on our minds was the tenuous Irish truce between Catholics and Protestants.

2.   His name is Twilight Bey, a former gang member who helped organize the tenuous truce between warring street factions in Los Angeles.

3.   Tenuous truces in northeast Los Angeles have snapped.

4.   A tenuous truce has been in force since Friday.

5.   The West African country is under a tenuous truce by warring rebel factions who nearly destroyed the capital last spring.

6.   With a tenuous truce holding overnight, Liberian leaders on Monday turned their focus to a standoff between rival militias at a military barracks.