Sentence examples for peaceful attempts from inspiring English sources

By and large they have not resorted to arms (just like most Muslims worldwide) and should be lauded for their peaceful attempts to defend their community.Susan HaywardWashington, DCSIR – Demographic issues were largely absent in your special report.

December 2, 1944 Cerrcë, Serbia January 21 , 2006Pristina, Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova, (born Dec. 2, 1944, Cerrce, Kosovo, Yugos. [now in Serbia] died Jan . 21 2006, Pristina, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro) Kosovar nationalist writer and politician who, devoted his public life to peaceful attempts to gain independence for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Workers in one of the labor camps claimed they weren't getting enough to eat, and eventually, after more peaceful attempts to voice their grievances with the company, they rioted, with more than 1,200 Indian and Nepali workers throwing stones, smashing windows, overturning vehicles, etc.

Likewise, the Franciscan Order engaged in generally peaceful attempts to incorporate the Maya into the Spanish Empire via the attempted Christian conversion of native leaders.

In 1535, peaceful attempts by the Franciscan Order to incorporate Yucatán into the Spanish Empire failed after a renewed Spanish military presence at Champotón forced the friars out.

When peaceful attempts to reconcile fail, we must be prepared to defend the values in which we so whole-heartedly believe.

Varela's supporters see it as a peaceful attempt to change the system from within.

The wish for imperial rejuvenation need not be a destabilizing force: it fuels Russia's drive to subordinate its neighbors, but also Turkey's peaceful attempt to regain influence in the old Ottoman space.

"If that's not fanning the political flames, I don't know what is," Mr Wills told Breitbart News, a strange characterization of a peaceful attempt to help people exercise their constitutional rights.

Narine's peaceful attempt backfired spectacularly.

At one point, a peaceful protestor attempted to interrupt Clinton's speech, but the polished politician spoke over him.