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Example sentences for "peacetime"

Lexicographically close words:
peacekeeping; peacemaker; peacemakers; peacemaking; peaces; peach; peachblow; peaches; peachy; peacock
  1. The France to which tourists will come after the war will not be the France which peacetime visitors knew.

  2. In 1989 the economy enjoyed its seventh successive year of substantial growth, the longest in peacetime history.

  3. The ideological concord, the supremacy of a common national purpose, which could not be achieved in a quarter century of peacetime agony, was brought forth in the ordeal of national resistance.

  4. That larger objective of reconverting wartime America to a peacetime basis is one for which your government is laying plans to be submitted to the Congress for action.

  5. This is the very worst time for any war worker to think of leaving his machine or to look for a peacetime job.

  6. We face a great peacetime venture; the challenging venture of a free enterprise economy making full and effective use of its rich resources and technical advances.

  7. The period during which prices are supported will provide an opportunity for farmers individually to strengthen their position in changing over from a wartime to a peacetime basis of production.

  8. It failed to provide means to protect the farmer while he adjusted his acreage to peacetime demands.

  9. At the same time, we are producing power at Grand Coulee and at Bonneville which played a mighty part in winning the war and which will found a great peacetime industry in the Northwest.

  10. This estimate is based on the assumption that a rapid liquidation of the war program will be associated with rapid reconversion and expansion of peacetime production.

  11. The total of all other programs, which was drastically cut during the war, is increasing again as liquidation of the war program proceeds and renewed emphasis is placed on the peacetime objectives of the Government.

  12. While our peacetime prosperity will be based on the private enterprise the government can and must assist in many ways.

  13. The work of the Smaller War Plants Corporation is being carried on in peacetime by the Federal Loan Agency and the Department of Commerce.

  14. The national income in 1946 was higher than in any peacetime year.

  15. These proposed reductions were designed to encourage reconversion and peacetime business expansion.

  16. It is absolutely necessary to change the instruction, to reduce it to the necessary minimum and to cut out all the superfluities with which peacetime laborers overload it each year.

  17. Tonight, I stand before you to report that America has created the longest peacetime economic expansion in our history.

  18. I come before you tonight with a challenge as great as any in our peacetime history--and a plan of action to meet that challenge, to prepare our people for the bold new world of the 21st century.

  19. To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task.

  20. We should also take appropriate measures in peacetime to secure opportunities for new small enterprises and for productive business expansion for which finance would otherwise be unavailable.

  21. This necessary expansion of our peacetime productive capacity will require new facilities, new plants, and new equipment.

  22. After the war we must maintain full employment with Government performing its peacetime functions.

  23. Our present tax system geared primarily to war requirements must be revised for peacetime so as to encourage private demand.

  24. His marriage to the daughter of an influential politician should have assured peacetime promotion, but the nuptials coincided with an election depriving the family's party of power.

  25. There was so much dashing to and fro, so many orders relayed, so many dispatches delivered that I thought I might have been witnessing an outofdate Civilwar play instead of a peacetime action of the California National Guard.

  26. The Federal Government probably has no peacetime authority to regulate wages, prices, or profits in coal at the mines or among dealers, but by ascertaining and publishing facts it can exercise great influence.

  27. With this assurance the population returned to their peacetime pursuits, with the exception of some small roving bands of outlaws.

  28. Units active in 1970 could be enlarged to about double their peacetime strengths because all units are usually maintained at considerably below combat readiness strengths.

  29. Some unit designations, such as army division, are not used in the peacetime organization and, in other situations, the sizes of units may be scaled down somewhat from normal international practice.

  30. It is therefore probable that the leadership thinks in terms of peacetime shore patrols and would hope, in wartime, to use what units they were able to preserve to prevent totally uninhibited use of the seas adjacent to the country.

  31. This Administration has supported for FY 1981 the largest peacetime increase ever in military pay and allowances.

  32. Our Nation has made great strides in assuring a modern defense, so armed in new weapons, so deployed, so equipped, that today our security force is the most powerful in our peacetime history.

  33. Under conditions of high peacetime prosperity, such as now exist, we can never justify going further into debt to give ourselves a tax cut at the expense of our children.

  34. This made possible--and it was appropriate in the existing circumstances of transition to a peacetime economy--the largest tax cut in any year in our history.

  35. So, today, the transition to a peacetime economy is largely behind us.

  36. Third: Availing ourselves of facilities overseas for the economical production of manufactured articles which are needed for mutual defense and which are not seriously competitive with our own normal peacetime production.

  37. At this moment we are in transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy.

  38. He was convinced that a social change impossible in peacetime was practical in war.

  39. Later he explained that the possibility of applying this lesson [World War II integration of Negro platoons] to the peacetime Army came up again and again.

  40. They pointed with pride to the success of those black soldiers who served in integrated units in the last months of the European war, and they repeatedly urged the complete abolition of segregation in the peacetime Army and Navy.

  41. This provision was in line with the concept that the peacetime Army was a cadre to be expanded in time of emergency.

  42. Not only would separate training facilities for the few Negroes in the peacetime corps be impossibly expensive and inefficient, but not enough black recruits were eligible for such training.

  43. That in the event of universal training in peacetime additional officer supervision is supplied to units which have a greater than normal percentage of personnel falling into A.

  44. It failed to address the problems of qualitative imbalance in the peacetime services, probably in deference to Forrestal's recent rejection of the Army's call for a fair distribution of high-scoring enlistees.

  45. The Army was planning for the enlistment of a large cross section of the population through some form of universal military training; the Navy was planning for a much smaller peacetime organization of technically trained volunteers.

  46. But the policy of the corps was only practicable for its peacetime size, as its mobilization for Korea demonstrated.

  47. Navy find a place for the many black enlistees as well as the thousands of stewards ready and willing to reenlist for peacetime service.

  48. Only so many voluntary enlistments would be accepted in categories I through III, their numbers based on the normal spread of scores that existed in both the wartime and peacetime Army.

  49. The task of maintaining a biracial Army overseas in peacetime was marked with embarrassing incidents and time-consuming investigations.

  50. As Colonel Parrish, the wartime commander of training at Tuskegee, warned, a peacetime policy incapable of wartime application was not only unrealistic, but dangerous.

  51. Experience gained through the assignment of large numbers of marginal men to such units in peacetime would be of questionable value during large-scale mobilization.

  52. In peacetime no such means of detection will be possible.

  53. In general, the psychological warfare efforts of each belligerent were the direct equivalent of his peacetime nonpolitical propaganda facilities.

  54. After each war there is often a danger that the coarsening of a culture by the war will lead to the application of wartime skills to peacetime situations.

  55. In other words, there were eight years in which the Department of State had primary responsibility for the conduct of peacetime propaganda of the United States.

  56. Peacetime counterfeiters operate with poor materials, secretly, and in small shops.

  57. When war starts it is usually too late to re-educate generations already grown up, teach them wholly new skills, or develop administrative or operational procedures unknown in peacetime life.

  58. Advertising succeeds in peacetime precisely because it does not matter; the choice which the consumer makes is of slight importance to himself, even though it is of importance to the seller of the product.

  59. The ceremonialized discipline of modern warfare makes the military figure a little mysterious; his normal peacetime obscurity shielded him and his family from exposure, cheap publicity, gossip.

  60. Other nationalities made efforts similarly in keeping with their peacetime facilities.

  61. The less peaceful the world is, the more effective a peacetime information program can be.

  62. For peacetime purposes, it is to be remembered that though enemies may hide their scientists, their launching ramps, or their rockets, they cannot hide the occasion for war, nor their own readiness measures.

  63. During World War II the American armed services, government, and people learned more about the Japanese than they would have in twenty years of peacetime education.

  64. He must be as timely as the peacetime press, but must at the same time be as cautious as a government press agent.

  65. Newspapers in air format, reduced in scale, but with a heavy proportion of the normal peacetime features of the audience's own press.

  66. Even with peacetime facilities tremendous simplicity and repetition are needed to convey advertising on the radio.

  67. These transformations occur only because the man had the potential all along, and with someone backing him up and giving him the feeling of success, his incentives became equal, at least, to anything he had known in his peacetime occupation.

  68. This done, the course which makes for the perfecting of forces during peacetime training need only be extended to harden them for the risk and stress of war.

  69. They are the means to greater satisfaction during peacetime employment and the source of great personal advantage during the shooting season.

  70. The intake and the pipelines in all services fill with men of a quite different fiber and outlook than those which commonly pass through the peacetime training establishment.

  71. In peacetime it is only necessary to billet troops in the villages of any district and the number of fires in that district immediately increases.

  72. Also, whenever a major storm or other peacetime disaster threatens, keep your radio or television set turned on to hear Weather Bureau reports and forecasts (issued by the Environmental Science Services Administration of the U.

  73. This is used by some local governments to get the attention of citizens in a time of threatened or impending natural disaster, or some other peacetime emergency.

  74. In most places, the Attention or Alert Signal means that the local government wants to broadcast important information on radio or television concerning a peacetime disaster.

  75. It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake.

  76. Experience has shown that as cities, counties and towns develop their systems to preserve life under nuclear attack conditions, they also become better prepared to deal effectively with peacetime disasters.

  77. Although they have been installed mainly to warn citizens of enemy attack, some local governments also use them in connection with natural disasters and other peacetime catastrophes.

  78. Most local governments, however, have decided to use a certain signal to warn people of an enemy attack, and a different signal to notify them of a peacetime disaster.

  79. Many communities also are using an Attention or Alert Signal, usually a 3- to 5-minute steady blast to get the attention of their people in a time of threatened or impending peacetime emergency.

  80. While these local government systems have been set up mainly as safeguards against nuclear attack, they have saved lives and relieved suffering in many major peacetime disasters.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peacetime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; bloodless; calm; concordant; halcyon; harmony; idyllic; orderly; pacific; pastoral; peace; peaceable; peaceful; peacetime; piping; quiet; restful; serene; soft; tranquil; untroubled