Sentence examples for approaching peace from inspiring English sources

"And we said to ourselves, 'We are approaching peace, and we still have a legal system that acts as if it were in a state of war.

Lebanon's government borrowed on a huge scale through the 1990s, largely in the hope that an approaching peace would allow it to reclaim its role as a regional service centre.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ethnic separatists who want their own homeland in the country's east and north, threatened to pull out of approaching peace talks with the government after 10 Tamil aid workers in the east were abducted.

Was it war or approaching peace?

Something as nearly approaching peace as ever there comes in war was about to settle over the bivouac among the trees when one of Gordon's staff officers returned to explain that his chief had neglected to ask where he was to halt and camp the next night — as though it were certain he would break through and resume the march.

Special security operations have come and gone without consolidating anything approaching peace.

The closer the country approaches peace, the more trouble it has staying together.

For her, the programme provided an immediate networking pool and some theoretical tools to complement the practical experience she had already accumulated, while Jill Mann, a peace activist from Leeds, says it's made her rethink how communities approach peace and conflict.

The apparent skepticism with which Syrians approached peace talks earlier this year is vindicated.

"In taking my freedom, I can from now on approach peace in eternity in the company of my wife who was killed by the prosecution case [a reference to his wife's sudden death during the original trial]." Papon's flight is a setback for France's troubled attempts to face its wartime past, in which 75,000 Jews were sent to die in Germany.

In a letter to the newspaper Sud-Ouest, Papon himself said leaving France was a matter of honour and of finding a peaceful refuge to live out his last years: "In taking my freedom, I can from now on approach peace in eternity".