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times and peace
Our `` destiny '' in these perilous times should be to lead strongly in the pursuit of peace, with justice, under law.
The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.
In times of division, chaos, and endless wars between feudal states, he wanted to restore the Mandate of Heaven () that could unify the " world " (, " all under Heaven ") and bestow peace and prosperity on the people.
After the eventual breakup of the peace negotiations, which had been stalled numerous times and finally ended due to a guerrilla kidnapping of a congressman and other political figures, the Caguán demilitarized zone was terminated by the Pastrana administration.
Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.
Employing Arabs and Jews, it was an island of peace in turbulent times.
Citizens of the war-weary nation wanted stability, peace, and an end to conditions that at times bordered on chaos.
Between early August 1994 when Rawlings became ECOWAS chairman and the end of the following October, the Ghanaian president visited Nigeria three times to discuss the peace process in Liberia and measures to restore democracy in that country.
To acquire captives in times of peace, the Aztec resorted to a form of ritual warfare called flower war.
Having direct access to a body of water provided a route for resupply in times of war, an additional method of transportation in times of peace, and potential drinking water for a besieged castle or fortification.
Between early August 1994 when Rawlings became ECOWAS chairman and the end of the following October, the Ghanaian president visited Nigeria three times to discuss the peace process in Liberia and measures to restore democracy in that country.
Since classical times, it has been noted that peace has sometimes been achieved by the victor over the vanquished by the imposition of ruthless measures.
This made the king supreme in times of both war and peace.
Synthesizing Hellenic and indigenous cultural, religious, and philosophical ideas met with varying degrees of success — resulting in times of simultaneous peace and rebellion in various parts of the empire.
The ethos of personal freedom and conflict-readiness of these novels were seen as seditious even in times of peace and stability.
Hunting was considered to be an honourable, somewhat competitive pastime to help the aristocracy practice skills of war in times of peace.
This assembly ( or ), of the army in times of war, of the people in times of peace, is called by the king and plays a significant role through the acclamation of the kings and in capital trials ; it can be consulted ( without obligation ) for the foreign politics ( declarations of war, treaties ) and for the appointment of high state officials.
It is important to note that during these periods, and most other times of relative tranquility, the peace that is referred to does not mean complete peace.
Darius reportedly offered all of his empire west of the Euphrates River to Alexander in exchange for peace several times, each time denied by Alexander against the advice of his senior commanders.
The states would assign specially trained " messengers " or " runners " or " road-heralds ”, with great stamina and strength of character to carry messages in times of war as well as peace.
Recent examinations of primary documents have determined that the citizen diplomacy at work in the Portsmouth peace process — as the people of Portsmouth encouraged the delegates ' efforts for peace at numerous social events, especially during the times when formal negotiations were breaking down — provides an important example for diplomacy today.

times and swordsmiths
In Medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen coined the town's image, which is preserved to this date.
It was hence called the Armenian sabre, possibly after Armenian merchants and master swordsmiths who formed a large part of arms makers of the Commonwealth at those times.

times and returned
One of the few, if not the only, times he left Scotland was towards the end of his life, when he returned to Ireland to found the monastery at Durrow.
Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.
Jones also returned to theater several times after the Monkees.
At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.
In 1974, he returned to the # 1 spot on the R & B charts with " The Payback ", with the parent album reaching the same spot on the album charts ; he would reach # 1 two more times in 1974 including " My Thang " and " Papa Don't Take No Mess ".
She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times.
Bell was shipwrecked on the islands in 1879, and returned several times to investigate the ancient Buddhist ruins.
After meeting with management several times, in September 2004, Sixx announced that he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material.
He returned at and continued with Muralitharan who was called two more times in his sixth over on the second and sixth balls.
In both cases, this was done to accommodate a medical procedure which required Bush to be sedated ; both times, Bush returned to duty later the same day.
He even returned to the track himself a few times.
But by then, the Chargers fell on hard times ; Gillman, who had returned as general manager, stepped down in 1971, and many of the Charger players from the 1960s had already either retired or had been traded.
Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
His history with Nikola Tesla has also provided dramatic tension and is a theme returned to numerous times.
On its seven flights in 1884 and 1885 the La France dirigible returned five times to its starting point.
The Olympics again returned to London in 2012, making it the only city to host the games three times.
At times during the Napoleonic Wars, the islands were occupied by the British ; first from March 1801 to March 27, 1802, and then again from December 1807 to November 20, 1815, when they were returned to Denmark.
During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.
During this period, Vivekananda returned to Baranagar Math a few times, because of ill health and to arrange for monetary funds after Balaram Bose and Suresh Chandra Mitra, the disciples of Ramakrishna who sponsored the Math had died.
" People also kissed the earth for joy on returning to their native land after a lengthened absence, as when Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War Nyrop points out, however, that in modern times the ceremonious kiss of respect " has gone clean out of fashion in the most civilised countries ," and it is only retained in the Church, and that in many cases " the practice would be offensive or ridiculous.
Troughton returned to Doctor Who three times after he originally left the programme, becoming the only former " Doctor " to reprise the role that many times on television after his original run.
In the ringing studies birds ringed as chicks are recapatured close to their original nests, a tendency which can be extreme at times ; in Laysan Albatross the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was, and a study of Cory's Shearwaters nesting near Corsica found that of nine out of 61 male chicks that returned to breed at their natal colony actually bred in the burrow they were raised in.
Homearama's annual showcase returned two more times in Fairfield.

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