He was decisive when necessary, but his successes — prosperity, peace, steady progress on civil rights — were just as often the fruit of strategic caution and masterly inaction.
Japan once again strongly urges both sides to act to enhance mutual trust as well as to continue to make steady efforts for peace.
One of the things Nancy plots from her corner of Claridge's is the steady advance of world peace.
For much of the world, the last 10 years was a period to savor — an era of impressive economic growth, ever-higher life expectancy, relative peace and steady progress against poverty.
If the postwar years have brought new problems and yearnings, they have also brought a rare stretch of peace and a steady improvement in comfort to a people who had known little but turmoil and tragedy.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Budapest on June 17th to protest against his rehabilitation.Horthy's defenders argue that he brought peace, stability and steady economic growth after the trauma of the Treaty of Trianon, when Hungary lost two-thirds of its lands, and the Communist dictatorship of 1919.
But in the time he could spare from delivering babies in Brazoria County, he remained a mighty presence in the out-of-the-limelight world of those old-line libertarians who had never made their peace with the steady growth of federal power in the 20th century.
With his cowboy hat in place, microphone at the ready, and an American flag nearby, Benson's voice and sense of peace attracts a steady stream of listeners.
Mr. Sharon's immediate task is rebuilding Israel's negotiating strength, restoring the personal safety of its citizens and putting Israel back on a steadier, more certain path toward peace.
Israel's overture was rewarded not with peace, but with a steady stream of rockets raining even farther into Israel.
