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Example sentences for "maintain peace"

  • Simultaneously King George had telegraphed the Kaiser through Prince Henry as follows: Thanks for Your telegram; so pleased to hear of William's efforts to concert with Nicky to maintain peace.

  • Franklin Roosevelt said we "are determined to do everything possible to maintain peace on this hemisphere.

  • In order to maintain peace, he declared formerly that he would never extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine, and he has faithfully kept his word.

  • No, I advise him always to be armed and prepared, but to maintain peace as long as it is compatible with his honor.

  • Through all the great crisis of July and August, 1914, directly consequent upon the odious crime of Sarajevo, England exhausted all her efforts to maintain peace, but unfortunately without avail.

  • This, then, is the upshot of a motion which was to show that the present Ministers are unfit to carry on war or to maintain peace; and, by implication, that there are those who know better how such matters should be managed.

  • The object of the Government has been to preserve that station; and for the purpose of preserving it, to maintain peace.

  • If the French captain had acted under orders, most unquestionably those orders must have been given at a time when the French Government was most warm in its professions of a desire to maintain peace.

  • I say that our policy at the present time is to maintain peace.

  • His many speeches were, however, for the most part, merely acceptances of congratulations and, aside from the renewed expression of his hope to maintain peace, are not particularly significant to the student.

  • I now raise my glass with the wish that God's blessing may rest upon the red Westphalian earth and upon all its people, that I may be permitted still longer to maintain peace in order that they may follow their calling undisturbed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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