Sentence examples for peacekeeping rather than from inspiring English sources

Those forces are now mostly conducting patrols in the north, while troops sent by Mali's other regional allies, including Nigeria and Senegal, have been slow to arrive and have focused on peacekeeping rather than combat, prompting grumbles from Chad's president, Idriss Déby Itno.

With states becoming increasingly reliant on PMSC services, they may be loath to allow some of that capacity to serve UN peacekeeping rather than fulfill other tasks.

Although UNAMSIL's mandate would have allowed it to enter into combat with the RUF, the national contingents were reluctant to leave their bases and its focus remained on peacekeeping rather than the peace enforcement that the British and others believed was necessary.

The Conservatives have rebranded the armed forces' mission as fighting rather than peacekeeping.

On two other occasions during the 1990s, Canada and its allies took a more aggressive approach, in what was termed "peacemaking" rather than peacekeeping.

To most African countries, the mission looks like a peace imposition mission rather than a peacekeeping one.

It is to that mission, rather than a peacekeeping or humanitarian intervention in Sudan, that it decided to devote its resources.

Guterres told UN reporters that "prevention prevention prevention" was his priority rather than constant peacekeeping when there was no peace to keep.

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ONE of the main ways Stephen Harper, Canada's Conservative prime minister, has sought to distinguish himself from his Liberal predecessors is by building a modern army ready to fight, rather than merely for peacekeeping.

The four powers were plotting the creation of what would in effect be a new European army with its own command headquarters, rather than a mere peacekeeping force that could draw its recruits from national armies as before.