How to Use peace treaty in a Sentence

peace treaty

noun
  • Less than a month later, members of the Bloods and the Crips signed a peace treaty.
    Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Jordan is a key ally of the U.S., and for the past 30 years has had a peace treaty with Israel.
    CBS News, 5 May 2024
  • The narrow line is a buffer zone on the Egypt-Gaza border, set in place as part of the 1979 peace treaty.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The hostilities halted in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • An armistice signed in 1953 ended the fighting, but a peace treaty between the two countries has never been signed.
    Ed Flanagan, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In the wake of the war, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel, becoming the first Arab country to recognize the Jewish state.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In Jordan, one of only two countries that has a peace treaty with Israel, tension has risen along with the death toll in Gaza.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Vance argued that Wayne’s campaign in Ohio, while violent, led to a peace treaty and white settlement in the state.
    Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Since talks will be needed but a peace treaty is out of the question, the most plausible ending is an armistice agreement.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in a technical state of war.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • Under the peace treaty, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai, which Egypt would leave demilitarized.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Koreas are still technically at war since a peace treaty was never signed.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Egypt has warned that any movement of Palestinians into Egypt would threaten the 4-decade-old peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
    Najib Jobain, arkansasonline.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Indeed, one of the objectives of Israeli-Saudi normalization and a peace treaty should be to reduce the need for more U.S. forces in the region, not amp it up.
    Daniel C. Kurtzer, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023
  • That armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically in a state of war.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung and Tara Copp, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
  • To avoid such a fate, North Korea has called for a peace treaty with the United States as a condition for giving up its nuclear arsenal.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • And yet, just a few years later, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat concluded their historic peace treaty which stands to this day.
    TIME, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994 and maintain a strategic relationship.
    Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • The ultimate goals are a Palestinian state alongside Israel and a peace treaty with Saudi Arabia.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The terms of any peace treaty remain cloudy, though Azerbaijan, which forced Nagorno-Karabakh defense forces to capitulate last week, clearly has the upper hand.
    Astrig Agopian, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Free travel between the two countries was an essential stipulation of the peace treaty.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Although kidnappings have dropped dramatically since Colombia’s peace treaty with rebels in 2016, Mr. Guzmán said the practice had surged over the past two years.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The Koreas technically remain at war since the Korean war ended in 1953 with an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 21 June 2024
  • The 25th anniversary of the peace treaty will be celebrated this April, with Biden expected to make a trip to his ancestral homeland in order to mark the occasion.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Technically, the two Koreas remain at war as no formal peace treaty was ever signed.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Egyptian officials have warned that moving Palestinians into Egypt would threaten the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that is four decades old.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Amman’s resistance would likely be fierce, jeopardizing the peace treaty signed by Israel and Jordan in 1994.
    Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But a formal peace treaty was never signed, leaving the Korean Peninsula still technically at war.
    Chang W. Lee Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 27 July 2023

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