In addition, Brodhead faced a tenuous alliance with Iroquois tribes such as the Oneida, a large population of Tory-sympathizing settlers, and a delicate truce with the powerful Lenape-Delaware tribe.

The assassination came two weeks after Mr. Arafat struck a delicate truce with Hamas and two weeks before the first Palestinian election under self-rule.

Just maintaining the delicate truce forged by her careful words on their journey into Morgravia was destroying her soul.

Con sensed a delicate truce.

The film never forgets that a truce this delicate can easily crumble.

And if a personal decision were finally made, the rather delicate existing truce with Chthon would be broken, and the real trouble would start.

Merlings and men lived on the edge of a most delicate truce; each hated and hunted the other, but under mutually tolerable conditions.

However, once Lucifer abdicates, the triumvirate resumed their former positions and delicate truce.

She knew that naming any of the things she really wanted would break the delicate truce between them.

Although vampires' interactions with one another are somewhat constrained by the laws of the Vampire Council, conflicts are still possible, and he has negotiated a delicate truce with Seraphina.