Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war.

除了在收获季节，当自我保护需要暂时休战时，帕尔比部落总是进行私下或公开的战争。

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A temporary truce had been reached earlier that year.

那年早些时候达成了暂时停火协定。

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But these are also unlikely to bring the organization to heel - though they may exercise sufficient pressure eventually to achieve, with the mediation of Turkey or Egypt, a renewed temporary truce.

但是，这样也不大可能使敌对组织就范——尽管他们可以造成足够的压力，最终在土耳其或埃及的调解下达成一个新的临时停火协议。

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Mr Ulufa'alu has resigned and the rival ethnic groups have agreed to a temporary truce.

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Colombia's Minister of Defence Juan Carlos Pinzon has rejected the temporary truce, calling it "incoherent".

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Notions such as a temporary truce, the ditching of the armed struggle for a peaceful one (as happened, eventually, in Northern Ireland), or submission to the will of the Palestinian people most of whom currently want their own state side-by-side with Israel are in the air.

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