Sentence examples for peacemaking it from inspiring English sources

"We take down the image in the spirit of peacemaking – it is an olive branch.

For Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose agenda since he took office in July has been almost entirely focused on peacemaking, it was not a good day.

"Whether you call it peacekeeping or peacemaking, it all adds to India's case for a permanent seat on the Security Council, as perhaps one of the strongest enforcers of the U.N. writ and a responsible state," said Bharat Karnad, research professor in national security studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi.

Rather, it draws on elements of "just peacemaking" but it also would include specific criteria, virtues and practices to which "just peacemaking" does not refer.

What makes this problem a crisis is the pledge that the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, made before the general election to resign as first minister of the devolved Assembly on July 1st, unless the IRA honoured a year-old promise to start "putting its weapons beyond use", as the curious language of Irish peacemaking puts it.

All sides agree that there would have been no conference in Annapolis — and no decision for the United States to re-engage in peacemaking — were it not for Ms. Rice, who made eight trips to Israel in the last year.

After decades of conflict and peacemaking attempts, it is insulting the intellect of the peoples in the region to hear that a US president actually only wants to hear more from the parties.

While the appointment of the right-wing Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister may have signaled to many a shift away from any peacemaking efforts, it is likely that Netanyahu will use Lieberman strategically for his tough rhetoric to satisfy the more hawkish Israeli constituency.

In short, the negotiating environment is better suited to peacemaking today than it has been at any point in the last decade.

If Shas was satisfied, the common wisdom said, it would support peacemaking based on its spiritual leader's religious ruling that territory could be conceded if lives would be saved as a result.

At a time when pettiness surrounds thinking about the E.U., and the assumption is widespread that the Union's peacemaking role is over, it is critical to recall that the Union is Europe's surest safeguard against the Continent's darkest hours.