Sentence examples for peaceful intervention from inspiring English sources

If the crowd had gathered for the "peaceful intervention" that Lutz described, the Crown prosecutors replied, how come there were rifles at the ready?

(The judge, who heard the case without a jury, said that in his opinion the islanders at Foster's assembled not for a peaceful intervention but in the hope that something would start so that they could finish it).

Theodore Roosevelt's peaceful intervention in the Dominican Republic, where U.S. loans had been exchanged for the right to choose the Dominican head of customs (the country's major revenue source).

It's admirable to insist on purely peaceful interventions, but let's acknowledge that the likely upshot is that we sit by as perhaps another 60,000 Syrians are killed over the next year.

To put it another way: if we don't think peaceful humanitarian interventions (like anti-malaria campaigns in Malawi) work, then, yes, military humanitarian interventions (like bombing Libya) are the best possible use of American resources towards humanitarian ends.

We are faced with calls for peaceful humanitarian interventions all the time.

However, since the debacle following the Haitian cholera outbreak in which UN forces were blamed, even supposedly peaceful non-military interventions are under increasing scrutiny.

"In an attempt to contribute with the Syrians to a peaceful settlement without foreign intervention and with respect to the sovereignty of Syria, we have appealed to the Syrian government and to all opposition groups to send their representatives to Moscow at a mutually acceptable time for informal contacts without prior conditions," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

But in both cases they attempt to excuse sometimes violent police intervention in peaceful protests while keeping up the pretense that they are on the side of the people.

The threat of legal action could lead to the latest in a series of police interventions in peaceful student demonstrations.

The 86 papers included in this review primarily reported physical activity interventions from peaceful high-income countries.