Sentence examples for protracted peace from inspiring English sources

The protracted peace process has not attained its holy grail: a nationwide cease fire and the end of 66 years of fractured civil war.

As a result Britain was able to remain aloof from war on the Continent for a quarter of a century after the Hanoverian succession, and this protracted peace was to be crucial to the new dynasty's survival and success.

By the time the seriously ill Aliyev stepped down in favour of his son in 2003, he had conducted protracted peace negotiations with Armenia over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and had opened up Azerbaijan's oil industry to outside investment, but the country remained economically disadvantaged.

In Geneva, the protracted peace process has resumed.

By contrast, "periods of protracted peace have repeatedly presented the most profound threats".

This was followed by protracted peace talks that culminated in the 1996 San Andrés accords.

He was talking about the wars that embroiled myriad European powers and principalities from 1618 to 1648 in struggles over religion, territory and politics, so protracted that peace negotiations alone took four years.

However, the apparently successful disentanglement of Islamist militancy from a concomitant Tuareg rebellion – following protracted negotiations, peace-signing ceremonies in May and June, ceasefire violations and hours of discussions by robed men over cups of mint tea – could mark an important breakthrough.

Scheidel finds that protracted periods of peace, whether in ancient Rome or in contemporary America, have tended to produce social and economic stratification, while cataclysms such as the plagues of medieval Europe and the twentieth century's world wars have brought greater equality.

The minutes of the meeting also make clear Khartoum's intention to supply strategically significant military supplies, equipment, and training to one side of the bloody civil war in South Sudan, ensuring that this enormously destructive conflict is protracted and that peace negotiations will falter as the newly equipped rebel group fights on against the government in Juba.

A second project through HHI's Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA) explores the challenges for humanitarian practitioners of operating in transition from protracted conflict to peace and what protracted transition itself (as a result of decades of ongoing peace negotiations) can mean for addressing the needs of vulnerable and displaced populations.