Sentence examples for peacekeeping attempts from inspiring English sources

Yet such peacekeeping attempts don't always succeed.

The history of attempts at peacekeeping in Africa is not glorious.

Failures are listed as attempts at peacekeeping in Bosnia in the early 1990s, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, the British deployment in Helmand in southern Afghanistan, which started in 2006, and the air strikes in Libya in 2011.

Whether this new peacekeeping mission is an attempt to strengthen diplomatic and trade relations with Brazil, a move to control domestic Haitian politics, or simply a quick act of charity from an otherwise isolationist government, it's unlikely we've seen the end of Canada's Haitian experiment just yet. .

And where our attempts at regional peacekeeping did overreach, as in Lebanon in the early 1980s, we managed to pull back without disastrous or destabilizing consequences.

I see only one tank with soldiers at the half-price tkts booth on 47th St., and read a sign assuring theatregoers that the U.N. peacekeeping forces will make every attempt to get "Cats", Aspects 2" and "Bridges" safely through a performance.

All contingents faced great difficulties in this complex mission and continued to support UNAMSIL through its darkest hours.BERNARD MIYETUnder-secretary-generalDepartment of Peacekeeping OperationsUNNew YorkClearing the airSIR Your attempt to liken the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change to the Global Climate Coalition is like trying to compare apples and oranges (Face value, August 12th).

In its first mission beyond Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization assumed command of multinational peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan in an attempt to give the effort more continuity.

Attempts at rider-driver peacekeeping were a theme of Ms. Crotty's presentation, despite one aside in which she extolled the "8,000 reasons why riding a bike is superior to driving a car".

There is rising alarm in diplomatic circles, though, that charges against Mr. Bashir could jeopardize the vast aid and peacekeeping efforts in Darfur and undermine attempts to find a political settlement to end the crisis.

European nations had put the brakes on an American attempt to create a peacekeeping mission immediately, and lack of support by the coming Obama administration raised further doubts about its eventual creation.