Sentence examples for peaceful terms from inspiring English sources

For 150 years Portugal and Kongo remained on peaceful terms, founded on trade and conversion of the nobility to Christianity.

Speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering in Chicago on Aug. 18, 1980, he expressed in peaceful terms his call for a military buildup.

A recent report in these pages, on the other hand, puts out pretty much the same idea, couched in peaceful terms.

Ine had recently agreed peaceful terms with Wihtred over compensation for the death of Mul, and there are indications that the two rulers collaborated to some degree in producing their laws.

I have a tendency to phrase things in much less peaceful terms than the comment above -- and I am often taken to task for militant language in the cause of peace -- but you have to speak from the heart, and my heart is not at the moment a very peaceful place.

"The greater focus, however, must be on measures and structures to secure a peaceful long-term transition to avoid a chaotic collapse".

And while some speakers were obviously eager to tap crowds' current outrage, others took pains to cast the demonstrations as a peaceful, long-term, campaign over an issue that has proved remarkably and consistently divisive.

There is a great deal of common interest among the countries in Northeast Asia – including South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and yes, North Korea – to find a peaceful, long-term solution to the current crisis.

After the Dutch had driven the Swedish out of Butre, the director general of the Dutch West India Company, with headquarters in St . Georged'Elmina in the central Gold Coast, decided that it would be beneficial to negotiate a treaty with the local political leadership in order to establish a peaceful long-term relationship.

"But that's really what they're doing on their own terms: peaceful protest".

Later that year officials began touting a new term, "peaceful rise", to describe China's development.