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Example sentences for "peaceful settlement"

  • Should they succeed in subduing the constitutional forces, all reasonable hope will then have expired of a peaceful settlement of our difficulties.

  • The object of this proposal was, of course, to enable the Government to make effective preparations for war, without lessening the prospect of achieving a peaceful settlement by the negotiations in progress.

  • The reading of the Confutation had shattered the last hopes of the Lutherans for a peaceful settlement.

  • At the instance of Elector Joachim, negotiations were begun with Luther, which finally led to a sort of peaceful settlement.

  • It is, I consider, on the language and the action of the British Government that henceforward the last chances of a peaceful settlement depend.

  • Taylor's inaction seemed an encouraging sign, however, and on the 17th a request for a suspension of hostilities, accompanied with hints of a peaceful settlement, was made by Arista.

  • The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered.

  • Since Christmas your Government has labored again, with imagination and endurance, to remove any barrier to peaceful settlement.

  • He asked me whether he might see the Lhasa delegates, explain our views to them, and try and induce them to come to a settlement, for he said his Government were most anxious that a peaceful settlement should be arrived at.

  • Rumour asserted that the Czar sought to moderate the irritation in France and to bring about a peaceful settlement of the dispute; and this story won general acceptance.

  • His words were these: "The black soldiers are bent on fighting and raiding; they want no peaceful settlement.

  • In Albania, as elsewhere, the feuds of rival races had drenched the Balkan lands with blood; Greek and Bulgar forces had fought near Salonica, and there seemed slight chance of a peaceful settlement in Central Macedonia.

  • The people generously confided in the disposition of the General Government to observe their rights, and continued to hope for a peaceful settlement of the questions then agitating the country.

  • If there existed any hope or desire for a peaceful settlement of the questions at issue between the States, either party had a right to demand that, pending such settlement, there should be no hostile grasp upon its throat.

  • Certainly, if we could have foreseen the ultimate failure of all efforts for a peaceful settlement, and the perfidy that was afterward to be practiced in connection with them, our advice would have been different.

  • This was the first step towards a peaceful settlement of the disturbance.

  • He was prepared to run great risks and make great sacrifices for a peaceful settlement, but the position in which it was sought to put the Nationalists was unfair and intolerable.

  • He himself believed that the Prime Minister desired a peaceful settlement, but considered only what would give him a majority.

  • Was the position to be perpetuated, he asked, by which any one member of the Council could completely prevent a peaceful settlement of a dispute?

  • So far as it contains anything new, it is to be found in the definition of aggression which follows as a necessary corollary to the limitations inserted in the establishment of a universal system of peaceful settlement.

  • His duty and his interest are for a peaceful settlement.

  • All these forces make for a peaceful settlement.

  • To the end of peaceful settlement he exhausts every art of Ifugao diplomacy.

  • The deputation were to negotiate with the Government for a peaceful settlement on the basis of the Manifesto, accepting what they might consider to be a reasonable instalment of the reforms demanded.

  • The writer may be charged by the "peace" party with deliberately selecting a critical and anxious time as opportune to contribute a new factor to those already militating against a peaceful settlement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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