Sentence examples for first light of peacetime from inspiring English sources

Nostalgia is a dish best served warm, but it doesn't hurt one bit if the source of the heat is a mystery that brings to mind gorgeous spies and odious moles who watched the first light of peacetime bleed into the twilight of the Cold War.

In fact he is a protégé of former Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman, under whose watch the federal deficit had its first out-of-control peacetime deficit, under Ronald Reagan.

Even though they assume a surge in fertility rates close to the generation replacement levels, within a decade Europe — for the first time in peacetime — will have no natural increase of its population.

In August, Parliament passed a bill calling for first mass peacetime maneuvers of home troops… Between 1871 and the First World War, hundreds of writers followed Chesney's example and invasion novels topped the best-sellers in Germany, France and the United States.

The third of the Mutiny Acts of 1715 subjected the soldier to capital punishment for a wide array of peacetime offenses related to political disorder and troop discipline.

Ten minutes of combat are often enough to teach people what decades of peacetime cannot.

It will be the first time in peacetime the century-old event has not taken place.

The fat lounge chairs of peacetime were long ago taken adrift, of course.

ONLY a handful of peacetime politicians can claim to have changed the world.

This is the first coalition in peacetime in living memory and we all make mistakes.

Britain imposed its first long-term peacetime income tax in 1842.