1.   After a while, an uneasy truce was reached.

2.   But after a hurriedly arranged meeting, involving the national gipsy council, an uneasy truce was reached.

3.   But the two companies reached a truce, making minor adjustments to the agreement and putting a Bristol-Myers executive in charge of the clinical trials.

4.   Even if a genuine truce is reached, the prime minister said, the two sides will have to work out a completely new set of political guidelines.

5.   Fears of a military coup subsided in Paraguay this afternoon as President Juan Carlos Wasmosy reached a truce with rebel army commander General Lino Oviedo.

6.   For instance, a truce has been reached in a fight that goes back at least a decade over American industry complaints that Canadians unfairly subsidize lumber exports.

7.   Intense negotiations are being conducted between the PLO and the Islamic militant group Hamas to reach a truce and give the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal a chance.

8.   Last year, the two sides essentially reached a truce by agreeing to a balanced budget plan and a major tax cut.

9.   Oil prices stayed up, and Israel reached a truce with Syria and Egypt.