Sentence examples for peacetime from inspiring English sources

Private secretary to the prime minister, 1983-1990 You can argue about whether Margaret Thatcher was our greatest peacetime prime minister of the last century – my own view – or a partisan, narrow-minded shrew, which would seem to be the opinion of many Guardian readers.

"They should not be using peacetime customs methodology," he said, adding that material was piling up at Kathmandu airport instead of being ferried out to victims.

The impact of the crisis was the peacetime equivalent of the devastation wreaked on public sector finances by war itself.

As Peter carries young Laust on his shoulders through the corn, they look up and see the lark again, heralding a return to the simpler values of peacetime.

"These peacetime intrusions into the networks of key defence contractors are more evidence of China's aggressive actions in cyberspace," said the committee's chairman, Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan.

The Conservative leader was forced into the first peacetime coalition since the Great Depression, his partners the middle-of-the-road Liberal Democrats who had staged a revival since near-extinction in the 50s and had won 57 seats.

More importantly, he was not prepared to accept that it had been Labour overspending that had caused Britain's record peacetime deficit in 2010.

These are the highest levels of indebtedness in British peacetime history.

"The forces that were necessary to liberate Iraq are not necessary for the stability period," he said, hinting they might fall below the peacetime 15,000.

The habit of using military metaphor to describe peacetime politics is ridiculous and irresistible.

But it's only through being trained for high-intensity war-fighting operations that we are able to execute such activities in peacetime".