Sentence examples for half of peace from inspiring English sources

The government accused the Basque separatist group E.T.A. of conducting the attacks, which, it true, would be its first after a year and a half of peace overtures that included a unilateral cease-fire that the rebels broke off late last year.

Today, nearly half of peace agreements fail within five years in no small measure because half the stakeholders are excluded.

The result, he said in a recent episode of the Bionic Planet podcast, is tragic: "More than half of peace agreements fail within five years, often because belligerents get money from the exploitation of natural resources, like logging, that they can use to fuel the resumption of civil war".

"Nobody should believe that another half century of peace and prosperity is a given," she said.

Perhaps the most compelling explanation for Europe's past half century of peace is the prospect of the alternative.

The media recently reported that two and a half years of peace negotiations with rebels had gone worse than believed.

Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement, which has brought four and a half years of peace to that troubled province, faces a grave crisis.

A continent torn by the two most horrible wars in history achieved a remarkable half century of peace and prosperity, based on a marriage of liberalism properly so called (individual freedoms, including the entrepreneurial kind) and socialism rightly so ordered (as an equitable care for the common good).

The highway was designed to link the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico, and to commemorate a half century of peace between the North and the South after the American Civil War.

Likewise, last October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "No one should believe that another half century of peace in Europe is a given -- it's not... if the euro collapses, Europe collapses".

It is estimated that about half of all peace negotiations fail.