Sentence examples for a peace platform from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wickremesinghe, whose right-of-center United National Party won a national election in December on a peace platform, moved quickly into the vacuum.

Johnson is thought to have believed that McNamara intended to support Robert F Kennedy in a 1968 campaign to win the presidency on a peace platform.

The last negotiations between the rebels and the government broke down five years ago, not long after Mrs. Kumaratunga was elected president on a peace platform.

Mr. Keating ran for a California Congressional seat in 1967 on a peace platform, but lost to Shirley Temple Black, the Republican candidate.

In 1995, Mrs. Kumaratunga's new government, elected on a peace platform, negotiated with the Tigers for eight months until the rebels attacked Trincomalee Harbor.

In 1968 Lowenstein scotched U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's hope for reelection by persuading Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy to run against him on a "peace" platform opposing the war in Vietnam.

Perhaps they are having trouble remembering back to 1968 when the lesser of two evils was Hubert Humphrey and the evil one so clearly was Richard Nixon, (who after running on a pseudo peace platform proceeded to kill another million southeast Asians and 25,000 more American troops).

Sensing that opposition to Mr. Sharon is starting to mount in Israel, Mr. Burg, whose father led the National Religious Party, which represents the settlement movement, tested the waters, proposing that Labor embrace the Mitchell report in full as a blueprint for its peace platform.

During those three years, Israel developed the taint of a somewhat outlaw state for not climbing aboard the peace platform, or at least not with proper enthusiasm and good intentions.

At the same time, Labor would be backing away from or deferring its peace platform, which is fundamentally at odds with Mr. Sharon's.

Both were pleased with the Democrats' peace platform in 1864, but disappointed in the choice of nominee, Major General George B. McClellan, a War Democrat.