31.   Mason choreographs his actors as if they were enemy warriors, caught in an uneasy truce, suspecting that any minute the bloodbath will renew itself.

32.   Most journalists reach an uneasy truce with themselves as they navigate the two sides of this double standard.

33.   President Hugo Chavez and the managers of Petroleos de Venezuela have battled to an uneasy truce in their struggle for control of the state oil monopoly.

34.   Smith easily won the superspeedway war, and he and Meyer since have operated under an uneasy truce.

35.   The army is not getting paid, the Far East is facing massive electricity shortages and the uneasy truce in Chechnya threatens to unravel.

36.   The cones represent an uneasy truce in a bitter dispute between the school and parents over use of the yard.

37.   The compensation has made the victims dependent on the perpetrator, forcing an uneasy truce.

38.   The uneasy truce that has followed is partial, marked by the averted gazes of divided communities, and punctuated by violence.

39.   The uneasy truce is palpable.

40.   The Yankees and Orioles, who were to play the second game in a three-game series Wednesday night, seem to have reached a very uneasy truce.