Sentence examples for command peace from inspiring English sources

(9 5-6) Likewise, Zechariah predicts that Israel's coming king "will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war-horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea".

As his enemy will later describe him, he cannot "be other than one thing"; he commands peace "even with the same austerity and garb as he controlled the war".

Many explain Medellín's relative stability between 2003 and 2009 as thanks to an accord between the city's two independent leaders, Fajardo and drug lord Don Berna – both of whom commanded peace and calm from different sides of Medellín's divide.

Within the White House and across the U.S. military command, actual peace talks are seen as a distant possibility.

I'm sure it sounded strange to those early Muslims, many of whom likely thought they were marching to their deaths facing 10-to-1 odds, but when they instead met communities looking for peaceful co-existence, Muhammad withdrew the army and sent envoys instead, ensuring that command brought peace to the entire Middle East as well.

Where the people have a voice, and there is no balance, there will be everlasting fluctuations, revolutions, and horrors, until a standing army, with a general at its head, commands the peace, or the necessity of an equilibrium is made appear to all, and is adopted by all.

He unexpectedly defected in 1996, along with more than 1,000 rebel troops under his command, and negotiated peace with King Norodom Sihanouk, who pardoned him.

He cannot command the 30,000 peace-keeping soldiers in Bosnia: the "stabilisation force" takes its orders from NATO.

Brilliant was paid off in 1784, although Curtis remained in employment during the peace, commanding HMS Ganges as guardship at Portsmouth.

The Security Council created the command to keep the peace between North and South after Korean War hostilities ended.

But following his release on parole in 1993, Keenan used his influence to persuade the IRA high command to embrace the peace process.