Also, the transitional period may only result in a tenuous peace or fragile democracy.

Any threat to that tenuous peace from without was anathema.

In both cases, however, a tenuous peace continues to prevail between Israel and the two Arab states.

Finally the request was withdrawn and a tenuous peace was restored.

The fabric of this tenuous peace was ancient and crumbling.

The resulting rage was far beyond what any had been expected, and it took six full days for a tenuous peace to take hold.

For the next few years, a tenuous peace held in Scotland.

Last week he made it even though the city is still grappling with a tenuous peace that has made his job more difficult.

Conflicts between the peoples continued for the next 10 years, until a tenuous peace was reached.

What he found was not a tenuous peace but wholesale, government-sponsored slaughter.