Such had been the horrors of World War I that pacifism, and the avoidance of war by any means, was a dominant theme of the interwar years.
Jimmy Carter lifting the audience to its feet with a fiery attack on Mr. Bush's foreign policy and avoidance of war service.
There are many positive reasons – prominent among them strength in numbers, shared values, mutual protection and avoidance of war – why Britain should remain in the EU.
Defense is a public good; that is, once deterrence is achieved, all citizens benefit from the avoidance of war and no citizen can be excluded from enjoying the benefits.
There was a strong belief in many capitals that firmness would lead to the avoidance of war; that the Austrians would surely back down if the Russians backed Serbia; and that the Russians would back down if the Germans backed Austria.
With gyrating currencies no longer slowing global exchange on the way to trading friction, the world's division of labor will expand on the way to a self-interested avoidance of war.
On his view, the function of a world government should only be to ensure the avoidance of war and the pursuit of peace (Russell 1938 230-31).
The Obama administration's policies reflect both the wishes of the American citizenry and a new paradigm in international relations, one that places primacy not on power but on peace, not on the winning of wars but the avoidance of war by other means.
In Easter 1918 he spoke at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia to introduce conscription.
It boasts of no diplomatic accomplishments except the avoidance of nuclear war.
Few understood that his motivation at the time was avoidance of another war.
