noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a haven of peace/tranquillity/calm
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In the middle of the city, this garden is a haven of tranquillity.
a peace agreement (= a permanent agreement to stop fighting )
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The five countries in the region signed a peace agreement.
a peace deal (= an agreement to end fighting between countries )
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Hopes of a peace deal are fading.
a peace plan
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Both sides have agreed to implement the UN peace plan.
a peace proposal (= a plan to achieve peace )
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The Israeli government responded positively to the US peace proposals.
a peace rally
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CND are organising a massive Peace Rally on the second Sunday in July.
a peace settlement (= one which ends a war )
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Hopes of a peace settlement receded.
a peace treaty
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Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel.
a peace/climate/sales etc conference
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an international climate conference in Sweden
an uneasy peace
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There was an uneasy peace in the region for nearly three years before the conflict flared up again.
bring peace/war
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The treaty brought peace to both England and France.
Justice of the Peace
lasting peace
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a solution that would bring lasting peace
leave sb in peace (= go away from someone so that they can think, work etc alone )
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Just a few more questions, then we’ll leave you in peace.
live in peace/poverty etc
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The people in this country just want to live in peace.
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People should not live in fear of crime.
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We live in hope that a cure will be found.
peace and harmony
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We must stop these disagreements in the interests of peace and harmony.
peace and quiet
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I’ve had an awful day – now I just want some peace and quiet .
peace dividend
peace offering
peace pipe
peace talks
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All four Arab delegations walked out of the Middle East peace talks yesterday.
peace/human rights etc monitors
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The UN is sending peace monitors to the area.
peace/trade etc negotiations
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A new round of global trade negotiations is due to start next week.
pipe of peace
protest/civil rights/peace etc march
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I went on a lot of peace marches when I was a student.
rest in peace (= often written on a grave )
restore peace
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initiatives to restore peace in the Middle East
the peace process
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They are frustrated with the lack of progress in the peace process.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
inner
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What followed was a delight - an inner peace .
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Like other Whole Being participants, Roujansky said she relishes the inner peace fostered by the retreat.
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His reactions caused him pleasure, fury, deep repose or inner peace .
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Those Buddhists do not give me inner peace .
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Its greatest enemy is inner peace .
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I think I lacked inner peace .
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I saw centuries of craving for inner peace in those little figures.
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When we observe the Ego instead of taking it seriously, we find inner peace .
international
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For the pacifist mainstream, however, the threatened industrial explosion fed nightmares of social collapse rather than dreams of international peace .
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But that review did not anticipate the additional burdens placed on our military in the past few years by international peace operations.
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Because of international insistence on it, Resolution 242 is undoubtedly the entry ticket to an international peace conference.
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Unilateral State intervention in the absence of an authoritative decision can promote international disorder and disrupt international peace and security.
middle
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President Bill Clinton remained involved in Middle East peace efforts until the last days of his administration.
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S.-sponsored Middle East peace process appeared to be on track.
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Mr. Janner I am sure that the Secretary of State recognises the sensitivities of the middle east peace process.
uneasy
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So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years.
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There was a strange, uneasy peace in the city.
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After the devastation an uneasy peace settled over the Empire.
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With an uneasy peace prevailing along the border the international community launched a series of missions to defuse the crisis.
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But now the ship was almost ready and though the uneasy peace remained intact, soon it would be broken.
■ NOUN
accord
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Husseini was somewhat sidelined by the dramatic announcement of the secret Oslo peace accords in August 1993.
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S.-sponsored Dayton peace accord ended the killing in Bosnia, the Clinton administration is discovering how right he was.
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It is a result that will no doubt call into question the viability of the 1995 Dayton peace accords .
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National elections called for under the peace accord are expected to place around Sept. 1.
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Despite October's United Nations-brokered peace accord , landmines still maim about 300 people every month.
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For the first year of the Dayton peace accords , international attention centered on Bosnia.
agreement
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Indeed, the Prime Minister sent a message of congratulation to President Christiani when the peace agreement was reached.
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S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.
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A peace agreement was signed in Lusaka in 1999, but never implemented.
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S.-brokered peace agreement suspended the bloodshed.
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After seven hours of talks it was announced that they had signed a peace agreement .
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The issue now is to ensure that the ceasefire turns into a lasting peace agreement .
campaigner
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Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.
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The movement attracted widespread support from peace campaigners .
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Today to mark that anniversary a veteran peace campaigner cut through the base fence.
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Read in studio A peace campaigner has appeared in court charged with criminal damage.
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John Bugg died in January and peace campaigners have now named the path in his memory.
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During their trip, they also met world-famous peace campaigner Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie died in the Enniskillen massacre.
conference
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April/May 1990: Paris peace conference reconvenes.
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Thus everything went smoothly when the peace conference reconvened at Michaelmas at Montlouis, between Tours and Amboise.
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This first session dealt mainly with co-operation between the two countries at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference .
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The peace conference in Madrid seems to me to subsume all past resolutions.
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In his view peace conferences were a waste of time; the old elm had outlived its usefulness.
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Because of international insistence on it, Resolution 242 is undoubtedly the entry ticket to an international peace conference .
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Soon Richard and Philip were in agreement and, at the Duke's insistence, a fresh peace conference was arranged.
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His proposals also called for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
deal
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It may be here that Mr Pastrana's best hopes of ending his term with a peace deal lie.
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Under the peace deal , men of military age should be allowed to cross the former front line boulevard starting next week.
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Both are leftwing groups that control large zones of the countryside after temporary peace deals with President Pastrana.
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He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war.
dividend
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He mumbles some nonsense about clowns being the cause of peace - perhaps the money for the convention is the peace dividend ?
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But the base is about to become a casualty of the peace dividend .
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But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession, the signs are there, fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend .
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The peace dividend has contributed to thousands of job cuts at defence contractors like Dowty group and Smiths industries.
east
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President Bill Clinton remained involved in Middle East peace efforts until the last days of his administration.
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The Middle East peace process was stalemated; negotiations were stymied.
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Mr. Janner I am sure that the Secretary of State recognises the sensitivities of the middle east peace process.
effort
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The Clinton team did, as a flurry of recent revisionist accounts of the Camp David peace effort last summer shows.
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S.-led peace effort .
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We pray for these and other peace efforts .
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S.-brokered peace efforts in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.
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They also promised to continue to back his peace efforts .
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President Bill Clinton remained involved in Middle East peace efforts until the last days of his administration.
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Relations were already strained as a result of Likud's approach to US-sponsored Middle East peace effort .
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We need increased levels of humanitarian and development aid across the region, and the promotion of grassroots peace efforts .
initiative
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With Vance, he was to co-chair the UN-EC peace initiative .
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Britain and Ireland announce a new peace initiative that would separate political talks from the disarmament issue.
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Resolution 242 became the corner-stone of almost every peace initiative that followed.
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Local peace initiative activities were themselves the targets of violence attacks.
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As the months went by and peace initiatives came and went, the situation on the border became increasingly tense.
movement
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Indeed when the hope finally collapsed, in the first six months of 1939, the peace movement collapsed with it.
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In their latest incarnation, these cheerful blooms have lost their association with the peace movement .
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Early in 1915 most of the younger activists resigned in order to devote their energies to developing a women's peace movement .
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If Peres and Labor are defeated, the Likud Party has vowed to put the brakes on the peace movement .
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This in turn raises a series of further issues about rights of crucial importance to the peace movement .
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The idea that the peace movement was responsible for the National Government's policy of appeasement will not withstand examination.
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The peace movement and the criminal law None of these protests proved of any avail.
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Campbell's argument would imply a strategy for the peace movement that is heavily law-based, or at least centred on legal institutions.
negotiation
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Rowland had assisted in peace negotiations from 1984.
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Although further peace negotiations were scheduled for the latter half of 1991, the situation remained unresolved.
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The move was conceivably intended to thwart peace negotiations conducted by the archbishop of Canterbury.
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It was announced on Feb. 25 that a ceasefire had been agreed in principle as a prelude to full peace negotiations .
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Intensified diplomatic activity from mid-June around the possibility of peace negotiations had not inspired much optimistic comment.
plan
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While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan , the military conflict continued.
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Sierra Leone is a matter of a bad peace plan and bad military organisation on the ground.
process
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This superbly staged meeting between the two heads of state did little to further the peace process in the Middle East.
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Some introduced measures in Congress to prevent Washington from helping move the peace process forward.
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This is the essence of a reasonable peace process .
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Mr Trimble is a vital part ofthe peace process .
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However, two important developments occurred to derail the peace process .
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I agree with him about the irreversibility of the peace process .
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We strongly support the peace process in the Middle East.
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This international acceptance was emphatically less the result of the peace process than of the Uprising.
settlement
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He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement .
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The tentative discussions in Washington towards a peace settlement are now irrelevant.
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It was an essential part of the peace settlement package but has a wider significance than just between the parties.
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The Soviet leadership appeared concerned that it should ensure for itself a role in any future Middle East peace settlement .
treaty
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Abetted by her husband, she refused to countenance the renunciations which Henry was to make in the peace treaty .
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In the spring of 1950 decisions were reached in Washington that at last pointed the way forward towards a peace treaty .
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It is the first of several accords that are expected to culminate in a peace treaty to formally end the Chiapas conflict.
world
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Independent means gave her the opportunity to devote her life to social causes and world peace .
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But Roosevelt believed that world peace required small countries to cease their trouble-making.
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After one hundred days of world peace , all surviving were to put it mildly, a little bothered and regretful.
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Those from the late 1970s look like advertisements for world peace .
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At home, Mami and my sisters and I said a rosary for world peace .
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All these developments, reinforced by a stretch of world peace , brought about a great surge in travel.
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The lofty but toothless declarations on behalf of world peace and brotherhood of man were gone.
■ VERB
bring
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That brings peace to our inner conscience.
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What kind of love was theirs, that it brought strife instead of peace ?
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That brings peace to us in the midst of our outward circumstances.
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But it will take more than words to bring peace back to the Middle East.
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It's hard to see how any of these options brings peace closer.
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Beauty leads us on, Harvey, and for some of us presumably it brings satisfaction; peace .
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There seems to be only one feasible solution that could bring lasting peace .
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Hiring a private nurse or nurse's aide brings peace of mind to patients and their families, say its proponents.
disturb
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Kenneth Jackson's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace .
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Unfortunately, thoughts of the future Mrs Blue occasionally disturb his growing peace of mind.
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Riders heard disturbing the peace will have their registrations noted, and these will then be passed on to the police.
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When she none the less returned to school, the board president had her arrested for disturbing the peace .
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It disturbed his peace of mind.
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I was also frightened that she wrote to accuse me of disturbing her peace .
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She promised herself never again to disturb the peace of this man's life.
find
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So I have to ask you to leave me to find my peace again.
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As one biographer reports, it almost killed him, but he found no peace until he had finished every last one.
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That was all I needed ... just when I had found a little peace at last.
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AsIread during the next few weeks, I began to find the most amazing peace .
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Going out into the night George Grindal also hoped to find peace .
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You must, in short, become a born-again consumer, redeem yourself, and find peace .
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May we find an inner peace and happiness which is beyond the price of money.
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He was finding scant peace in his own home these days.
keep
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Blue-helmet blues United Nations forces sometimes have to fight to keep the peace .
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To show the world that the United States does not want reunification, it is necessary to keep making new peace proposals.
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He protested to Theo at one point that he was trying hard to keep the peace - but how hard?
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Some conditions, nevertheless, did contribute toward keeping the peace .
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Even so, she wanted to keep the peace so she said nothing when she got indoors.
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Carrillo managed to keep the peace and promote cooperation among rival drug bosses.
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But Kate knew when enough was enough so she kept her peace .
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Callaghan not unreasonably claimed in his memoirs that the Tories won the Falklands War but that Labour had kept the peace .
last
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Unless these conditions are met, there is no hope of lasting peace in the Middle East.
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None of the dreams of lasting peace in Northern Ireland have yet come true.
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A lasting peace requires the slate to be wiped clean.
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The issue now is to ensure that the ceasefire turns into a lasting peace agreement.
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Is Corsica ready to seize the chance of lasting peace ?
leave
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The lawyer for the three men cleared says they should now be left in peace .
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But the fat lady left me in peace .
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And now at least he'd be left in peace to get on with some real work.
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Please, Franklin concluded, do not publish that paragraph; he wanted to leave this world at peace with the sects.
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They fail to observe the right of the dead to be left in peace .
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Did he sense she may be willing to back off and leave him in peace ?
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So he's staying in sunny California, where punters leave him in peace .
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We thought that if women wanted to know about separatism they could read this, and then leave us in peace .
live
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We remember the past as something bitter, but we are going to create conditions for two communities to live in peace .
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Voltaire was wrong, of course, about the degree to which the multitude would live in happiness and peace .
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Or, more to the point, how they could live in peace and make money.
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You have to live in war and peace the same way.
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The other principle is the right of every state in the area to live in peace within secure and recognised borders.
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Now Aladdin and his wife lived in peace , and when the old sultan died, Aladdin ruled.
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It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world.
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He has certain guarantees to live in peace in Cuernavaca.
make
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Before Nina dies she and Gael again make peace , she repents her sins, and Gael vows to rewrite his novel.
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You see, gentlemen, my position is simply to invite the two nations to come together to make peace .
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Was it really too late to go back - to make her peace with Mach?
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The national-greatness conservatives, as represented by Kristol and Brooks, make their peace with big government.
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It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester's service.
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In making peace , we are one people.
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We're willing to make peace if we can all agree.
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However, with his defeat at Puebla, the moderates secured a majority in Congress and determined to make peace .
negotiate
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From now on Mr Trimble can negotiate peace only under two, severe constraints.
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The outcome might then have been a negotiated peace or, at best, a military stalemate, he contends.
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The discredited army came under popular pressure to step aside and allow an elected civilian to negotiate a peace process.
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Kornblum helped negotiate the peace agreement signed in Dayton, Ohio, last November, which included a 16-page constitution.
rest
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But resting in peace is not always easy.
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They need to find the killers of Peter and Gwenda so they can rest in peace .
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For Tony, that he may rest in peace , and for his family for their strengthening and peace.
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Ashamed of your old man, want the whole gruesome mess to rest in peace ?
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So much for the residents being allowed to rest in peace .
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But the pensioners won't let him rest in peace .
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This he would find touching beyond anything: Sien brought to rest , at peace in a thrilling silence.
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He was buried in Auchinleck kirkyard but, even in death, he was not allowed to rest in peace .
restore
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Sometimes you're treated like some one who might be able to restore peace there, sometimes like a mere diamond trafficker.
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Let us strike the blow which is to restore peace and union to this distracted land.
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Even the acquittal pronounced by Athena had not restored to him his peace of mind.
sign
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The fact that the government was willing to sign a new peace agreement was its concession.
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Insurgents'; but in 1782 the latter signed a secret peace with Britain, abandoning their allies.
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On May 21 Haqqani announced that Masud and Hekmatyar had agreed upon, but not signed , a five-point peace pact.
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After seven hours of talks it was announced that they had signed a peace agreement.
sue
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But Richard was in no mood to sue for peace .
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She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea.
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They are prepared to sue for peace .
want
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Baldwin's task, if he wanted peace , was to prevent this sector from flaring into conflict.
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Like many in my generation, I wanted to believe that peace could come from perfect breathing.
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If you want to starve in peace .
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What she wanted was perfect peace .
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Even so, she wanted to keep the peace so she said nothing when she got indoors.
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But even if it's just darkness I want that peace .
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Why did he want to hold his peace ?
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All they wanted was the peace of defeat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a road map to peace
breach of the peace
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It must also be remembered that the fundamental duty imposed on the police is to prevent a breach of the peace.
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Novinpoor admitted conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace and was bound over.
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Sometimes, the prospect of a breach of the peace may form the basis of pre-planned preventive action.
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To begin with, there was no evidence from either of the policemen concerned that he feared a breach of the peace.
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What factors may the policeman take into account in deciding whether or not a breach of the peace is likely?
disturb the peace
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Foreigners are seen to contaminate their precious homogeneity and disturb the peace.
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Here a total sense of calm prevails and only church bells disturb the peace.
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In 1668 he found himself in gaol once again, this time on a charge of disturbing the peace.
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Kenneth Jackson's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace.
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Riders heard disturbing the peace will have their registrations noted, and these will then be passed on to the police.
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She promised herself never again to disturb the peace of this man's life.
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The accused batterer was fined $ 150 for disturbing the peace.
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When she none the less returned to school, the board president had her arrested for disturbing the peace.
shatter the silence/peace
sue for peace
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They had hoped to force the North to sue for peace.
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But Richard was in no mood to sue for peace.
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She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea.
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They are prepared to sue for peace.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All her life she'd been an active member of the peace movement.
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Can't we just have peace in the family?
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In 1648 the Peace of Westphalia ended the 30 Years War.
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It was a dangerous situation that threatened world peace .
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More than 250,000 people died before a peace agreement was reached.
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Now go away and let me get on with my work in peace .
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Residents say that the new development would shatter the peace of their area.
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Some of these children have never known a time of peace .
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the Middle East peace process
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the search for inner peace
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The United States urged Moscow and the rebels to resume peace talks.
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There has been peace in the region for six years now.
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They've gone to the countryside for some peace and quiet.
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Top footballer Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the first time in days Hilary felt at peace , the hurt and pain pushed aside for a while.
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Once again, by failing to opt clearly enough for peace , he seems to have opted for war.
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The drawings with their restrained colours give a feeling of peace and contemplation.
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They have no bearing on postwar peace and stability in the area or stopping some other middle-sized gangster swallowing a weaker neighbour.
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What anthropologists stressed was that the State brought safety for the individual, peace , and the rule of law.
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Why does peace come into Paul's concern for others?