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Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents – young and old, rich and poor – have peacefully occupied major thoroughfares across the city, shuttering businesses and bringing traffic to a halt.
The three options, Obama said, were to bomb the nuclear facilities and launch a third war in the Middle East, maintain the status quo and hope for the best, or seek "a robust and verifiable deal like this one that peacefully prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon".
Lawyers have written to London's mayor threatening legal action after he sanctioned the construction of "unlawful" fences around the square, which campaigners claim are a deliberate attempt to stop them protesting peacefully.
"Let us not disrupt a process which has ended peacefully and which we will conclude in a few hours," Jega said.
Protesters in the nation's capital blocked a major street as they marched peacefully through downtown DC and Chinatown, where some burned American flags.
In 1970, as the Northern Ireland Troubles escalated, Gerry Fitt, John Hume and others associated with the civil rights campaign banded together to form a new grouping that they called the SDLP, to pursue their demands, democratically and peacefully , in both the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont and at Westminster.
While the Czechoslovak partition is widely seen as a model of how to divide a country peacefully , Abby Innes, a lecturer at the London School of Economics and author of Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye, argues against using it as the template for other dissolutions.
The debate about whether there is a way back for Pietersen is likely to be the last thing my grandchildren will hear before they die, in their beds, peacefully , at the age of 136.
Yet even if the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's groundbreaking tour passes off relatively peacefully , it will not mark the end of dissidents' armed campaigns.
[Gordon] Brown would also have 78% approval if he used the same methods," he said, adding: "If the regime is really so popular, why can't we march peacefully ; why can't I appear on the ballot?" He said he and his family lived "almost under siege" in Russia, and had to hire bodyguards to secure their personal safety.
Django, offered his first kill on a bounty hunt, looking down from a ridge with rifle at the ready, frets about shooting a man out peacefully ploughing with his son.
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The adverb "peacefully" primarily functions as a manner adverb , modifying verbs to describe how an action is performed. It indicates that an action is carried out without conflict, violence, or disturbance, as evidenced by the Ludwig examples provided.
Expression frequency: Very common
