If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace.
Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months.
If some of them refuse at first to make peace with us, afterward, on seeing how well we treat those who have already accepted our friendship, they are induced to do the same.
It was determined, therefore, by the whole city that an embassy should be despatched to Marcius, to offer him restoration to his own country, and to beg of him to make peace.
But he, terrified by the prestige and reputation of Epameinondas for strategy, "Let fall his feathers like a craven cock," and quickly sent an embassy to him to make peace.
The King of Prussia had written a private, but very pressing letter to the Emperor of Russia entreating him to make peace.
The two Augusti proceeded to the scene of war, and after a protracted struggle in which Dacia suffered from a hostile invasion, the enemy were forced to make peace.
Roman army advanced through Umbria and invaded northern Etruria, the cities which had taken up arms against Rome were forced to make peace.
He was clothed with power tomake peace or war with whom he chose, and enjoyed an unexampled concentration of authority in his hands.
He defeated the Carthaginians in battle and reduced them to such extremities that they sought to make peace.
They were, however, no less weary than the Danes of the incessant hostilities, and much against his will, Harold was forced to make peace at Goetha Elv in 1064.
Eystein, seeing his brother's superior strength, proposed to make peace.
It is not improbable that some insignificant skirmishing may have been done; but before any decisive battle was fought, the chieftains in both countries interfered and persuaded the two youthful combatants to make peace.
Enraged by this unexampled audacity, the king came near taking summary vengeance upon Erling, but allowed himself to be persuaded by Bishop Sigurd to make peace, on condition that Aasbjoern should surrender himself to his mercy.
The Triple Alliance only compelled Lewis to make peace on the terms on which, before the alliance was formed, he had offered to make peace.
Then there are sure to be other conferences to try to make peace secure.
The overwhelming fact is that the President's mind was fixed on a determination to compel the warring powers to make peace and in this way to keep the United States out of the conflict.
Both of the two great protagonists--Lord Haldane and Lord Roberts--have declared that if we lost the command of the seas we should have to make peace.
Unfortunately, it takes two to make peace, even as it takes two to make a quarrel.
Such incidents will, I fear, make peace an impossibility in our generation, for whatever statesmen may write upon paper can never affect the deep and bitter resentment which a war so conducted must leave behind it.
A new combination of nations now united against the republic, but Bonaparte cut to pieces a great Austrian army, and a second time compelled his enemies to make peace.
If we make peace now, allowing you to keep the greater part of what you have conquered, you will be magnanimous and give back a small portion of it if we in turn surrender all your lost colonies.
If, therefore, the treaty between France and America were annulled, and the Americans returned to the domination and monopoly of Great Britain, there would be no need of troubling all Europe with a Congress to make peace.
Blind old Appius Claudius, who had often been consul, caused himself to be led into the Senate to oppose it, for it was hard to his pride to make peace as defeated men.
People in ancient Greece expected such gifts to back a suit; but Kineas found that nobody in Rome would hear of being bribed, though many were not unwilling to make peace.
Porsena believed the story, and began to make peace.
Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peacewith me, shall it make peace with me?
I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.
And the proposal was acceptable in the sight of the king, and of the princes: and he sent to them to make peace: and they accepted of it.
And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it.
The battles of Freiburg, Nordlingen, and Lens raised the fame of the French generals to the highest pitch, and in 1649 reduced the Emperor to make peace in the treaty of Münster.
He thus was induced to make peace, giving his young sister Mary as second wife to Louis; but that king over-exerted himself at the banquets, and died six weeks after the marriage, in 1515.
Everything tended to make peace necessary to some of the contending powers, as it was at length desirable for all.
Guinegate in Picardy, and forced to make peace on more favorable terms than they had hoped for.
Charles was forced to make peaceon the conditions proposed by the Dutch.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make peace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
