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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
truce .
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Examples
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In exchange, the British took on the responsibility of keeping the peace with agreements that evolved into guarantees to protect the independence and integrity of these various “trucial” states.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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In exchange, the British took on the responsibility of keeping the peace with agreements that evolved into guarantees to protect the independence and integrity of these various “trucial” states.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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It was ten minutes past high noon when I paid off my helicab, ducked under the air blast from the caged high-speed rotors as they whined back to speed, and looked around the sun-scalded, dust-white, mob-noisy bazaar of the trucial camp-city of Tamboula, Republic of Free Algeria.
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There were some pale, intense English faces among the gathered friends of Arabia he had already seen, but there were also ageing, darkened skins which must have weathered in the forts of trucial levies and Arab Legion messes.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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Obviously the current borders for Gulf states were drawn for the first time ever by the British whose protection of the "trucial states" and its various tribes started as far back as the early 19th century.
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Obviously the current borders for Gulf states were drawn for the first time ever by the British whose protection of the "trucial states" and its various tribes started as far back as the early 19th century.
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Obviously the current borders for Gulf states were drawn for the first time ever by the British whose protection of the "trucial states" and its various tribes started as far back as the early 19th century.
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When the U.K. announced a policy in 1968 (reaffirmed in March 1971) of ending the treaty relationships with the Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection (the seven trucial sheikdoms -- the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.
unknown title 2009
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When the U.K. announced a policy in 1968 (reaffirmed in March 1971) of ending the treaty relationships with the Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection (the seven trucial sheikdoms -- the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.
unknown title 2009
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When the U.K. announced a policy in 1968 (reaffirmed in March 1971) of ending the treaty relationships with the Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection (the seven trucial sheikdoms -- the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.
unknown title 2009
qroqqa commented on the word trucial
Unusual in that it only ever refers to one thing, the former Trucial Coast/Oman/States.
January 5, 2009