"The building code is intended to protect neighbors from new neighbors and to keep the village relatively quiet, peaceful and spread out," he said.
As my colleague Simon Romero reports from São Paulo, more than 200,000 Brazilians filled the streets in cities across the country on Monday to protest the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year's World Cup, in demonstrations that have intensified as images of police brutality against peaceful protesters spread on social networks.
Turnout on the first big day of India's general election hit record numbers in a largely peaceful exercise spread across 14 states, including the capital Delhi, insurgency-hit areas of Jammu and Kashmir state and a riot-torn part of Uttar Pradesh.
From northern Africa to the Persian Gulf, governments appeared to flounder over just how to outrun mostly peaceful movements, spreading erratically like lava erupting from a volcano, with no predictable end.
John Steele Gordon wrote in his book An Empire of Wealth published in 2004: "Virtually every major development in technology in the 20th century originated in the United States, and as the products of these technologies traveled around the globe, the result was a subtle, peaceful and pervasive spread of American culture and perspective".
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The cleric, Sheik Muqbel bin Hadi al-Wadie, denies that the work includes weapons training, saying his movement is a peaceful one that spreads the concepts of Islam.
Asked whether he supports the peaceful protests, he spreads his arms as though pulling a concertina: "If you have a petition, I'll sign it".
Another self-proclaimed anarchist, Aztecarna Peatonito from Mexico, said he wanted a peaceful way of spreading a message against inequality: "We tried for six years to get the press to take us seriously.
So tomorrow at 11am, I'm going to be arriving with scented candles, to spread a peaceful atmosphere.
