uneasy peace
noun
: a state in which fighting could start at any time
The two countries have maintained an uneasy peace.
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Libya’s collapse into civil war, and the growing presence there of militants affiliated with the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), has sustained the regime’s narrative that an uneasy peace is still far better than chaos.
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Francisco Serrano, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2016
Serbian forces were massing along the length of their country’s border with Kosovo, where NATO has kept an uneasy peace since a bloody war of secession in 1999.
—TIME, 29 Feb. 2024
During the 30 years of increasingly uneasy peace with Russia, Europe dismantled much of its production capability.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Separately, each expert argued that keeping an uneasy peace among nuclear foes required them to talk, to share concerns and to take modest steps at confidence-building.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Malakal, like several other camps, is home to ethnic groups and communities who maintain an uneasy peace following the civil war that ended in 2018.
—Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
The show took place on the titular Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 May 2023
Since then, each generation of artists has used theater, song and film to reflect on their states’ still-uneasy peace – made all the more complicated by Brexit.
—Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
Francisco Serrano, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2016
Serbian forces were massing along the length of their country’s border with Kosovo, where NATO has kept an uneasy peace since a bloody war of secession in 1999.
—TIME, 29 Feb. 2024
During the 30 years of increasingly uneasy peace with Russia, Europe dismantled much of its production capability.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Separately, each expert argued that keeping an uneasy peace among nuclear foes required them to talk, to share concerns and to take modest steps at confidence-building.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Malakal, like several other camps, is home to ethnic groups and communities who maintain an uneasy peace following the civil war that ended in 2018.
—Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
The show took place on the titular Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 May 2023
Since then, each generation of artists has used theater, song and film to reflect on their states’ still-uneasy peace – made all the more complicated by Brexit.
—Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
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