TUNING in round the clock, via satellite or internet blog, to any bout of mayhem anywhere, you might not think the world was becoming a more peaceable place.
This is slightly overdone, since anyone who thinks that, say, medieval Europe was a friendly, peaceable place can't have thought about it very much.
Other scholars proposed that the spread of democracy — including, in the nineteen-eighties, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe and the dismembering of the Soviet Union — made the world a more peaceable place.
The documentary covers six peaceable uprisings that took place in different decades and very diverse cultures: Indian protest against British rule, desegregation in the American South, anti-apartheid action in South Africa, the Solidarity movement in Poland, the defeat of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile and the Danish resistance against the Nazis in World War II.
Similarly, Hobbes, who is in the secular natural law tradition, says, "the writers of moral philosophy, though they acknowledge the same virtues and vices," complains that they do not see, "wherein consisted their goodness, nor that they come to be praised as the means of peaceable, sociable, comfortable living, place them in the mediocrity of the passions".
But Alfonso, unlike Gaston, has a peaceable plan, a plan to bake his beloved a cake.
Muslims in both places are a generally peaceable and small minority.
Instead of which, wherever our armies have gone, we have protected them in the full and peaceable enjoyment of their houses, property and all the comforts they had, going even so far, as is done at this place, to allow them the privilege to pass outside our lines and communicate all they know of us to their dear friends and fellow patriots.
R.M. and I created a peaceable kingdom in our little space.
It noted that the effort followed unsuccessful "peaceable attempts to diffuse the situation" by the SPCA.
Yet despite the neighborhood's traditional name, "it was really a peaceable kingdom," he said, "not at all an intimidating place to grow up in".
