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How to use the word peaceful in a Sentence?

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The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

– Jacob G. Hornberger

added by Normando
2 months ago

Have you ever seen somebody die? It’s not like in the movies, not to me. You don’t close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

My wife keeps telling me, ‘ But how could this happen ? You always promised me that Canada was a peaceful country, but now we’re starting to flee as if we’re back home.

– Rey Steve Mabiala

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

The bears here are very peaceful, this one just caught me off guard.

– David Oppenheimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From what I heard, removing Ukraine from the list of things that they’re going to discuss was a demand from the Chinese government, there’s still some interest from the Brazilian part to raise the issue and to discuss ideas, and they hope to release a joint statement where they mention the Ukrainian conflict, calls for a peaceful solution and mediated diplomatically, but it’s not officially on the program and to a large extent that was expectable.

– Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s still some interest from the Brazilian part to raise the issue and to discuss ideas, and they hope to release a joint statement where they mention the Ukrainian conflict, calls for a peaceful solution and mediated diplomatically, but it’s not officially on the program and to a large extent that was expectable.

– Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tanzania is a beautiful and a peaceful country, but there is a dark side, many people live in poverty, and forced labor is a very big problem.

– Angela Benedicto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers.

– Atlanta Police Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Peaceful demonstrations that follow the law are part of democracy. However, depredations and invasions of public buildings as occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, escape the rule.

– Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will explore all legal and peaceful options to reclaim our mandate. We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians, this election did not meet the minimum standard expected of a free, transparent, credible and fair election.

– Peter Obi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is very disturbing, that South Africa is hosting a military exercise with the country – an aggressor, invader – that is using its military force against a peaceful country, bringing destruction and trying to eliminate the Ukrainian Nation.

– Liubov Abravitova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The timing of these exercises is particularly unfortunate and will focus the world’s attention on South Africa during the anniversary of the war. I don’t think Western nations are going to let this one slide, it is very disturbing, that South Africa is hosting a military exercise with the country – an aggressor, invader – that is using its military force against a peaceful country, bringing destruction and trying to eliminate the Ukrainian Nation.

– Steven Gruzd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My brother was the most peaceful person you ever met. He’s never lifted a finger to nobody. Never raised his voice to nobody, if my brother was here today and he had to say something, he would tell us to do this peacefully.

– Jamal Dupree

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve watched so many of these cases over the last several years, and when( law enforcement authorities) come forward and when they’re transparent and they provide information to the community, we typically see a very peaceful response.

– Emmitt Martin III

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We saw a very peaceful and direct sense of protest in the city of Memphis, and I think it’s because maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time.

– Memphis City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I think last night, we saw a very peaceful and direct sense of protest in the city of Memphis, and I think it’s because maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time.

– Memphis City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power, the Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land – an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy – for which he must be held accountable.

– George Cardona

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Never did I experience a calm and peaceful year.

– Akio Toyoda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The world won't change for the better unless we trust people, trust is vital to a peaceful world.

– Larry Foulke

added by augustusnaag
1 year ago

I have traveled more than 5,000 miles from my home in Indiana to be here today because we share a common cause : the liberation of the Iranian people from decades of tyranny, and the rebirth of a free, peaceful, prosperous and democratic Iran.

– Mike Pence

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
1 year ago

Each peaceful breath is a petal opening on the bud of humanity, a bloom on the flower of life.

– Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Treasures come in so many ways: The sun that lights the cloudy days, a rose that blooms within an hour. a baby that staring with a wandering gaze, a dolphin’s dance on ocean waves, a sky full of snowflakes of rarest form, a beautiful white and peaceful dove.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by alexiskarpouzos_1
1 year ago

It is clear that The Iranian government is afraid of The Iranian government own people, mahsa Amini is senselessly, tragically dead, and now The Iranian government is violently suppressing peaceful protesters rightly angry about Mahsa Amini loss.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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