Sentence examples for was peacemaking from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere in the Middle East, longstanding alliances with Egypt and Saudi Arabia are now looking dangerously fragile.The starkest failure was peacemaking in Palestine, which Mr Obama made a priority but where American peacemaking had in effect collapsed by 2011.

Secretary General Kofi Annan seemed to allude to American vulnerability in a speech earlier in the day, noting, "Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or man-made disasters, we have seen that even the strongest among us cannot succeed alone".

So I think there has to be peacemaking initiatives and that clearly must include women all the way from the village level right up to the national and global levels.

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

"Well, that was virtual peacemaking".

He added: "Part of that means reaching out to unionism and today really was about peacemaking towards unionism.

Until both Mr. Sharon and Mr. Arafat are replaced by peacemaking statesmen, many lives will be lost.

But the real peacemakers here are the peacemaking powers that wanted these talks, the United Nations security council and the Syrian people, hopefully".

As a point of principle, Obama's refusal to give into that political reflex shows that he really is committed to peacemaking.

The question is whether peacemaking can succeed.

There can be no peacemaking without a trustworthy and accountable Palestinian leadership.