Keep-the-peace Sentence Examples

John then asked the barons for a charter that they on their part would keep the peace.

He appealed to the pope, and hoped to crush his enemies by the aid of foreign troops, while the barons prepared for war, and the prelates strove to keep the peace.

He now entered into obligations to keep the peace with his various rivals, but was soon implicated in riots and partisan disorders, and was ordered in December to leave the city.

In Albania serious discontent, resulting in an insurrection (May-September 1909), was caused by the political rivalry between Greeks and Albanians and the unwillingness of the Moslem tribesmen to pay taxes or to keep the peace with their neighbours, the Macedonian Serbs.

The tribes are not interfered with as long as they keep the peace.

The hand of a strong man was still needed to keep the peace in the newly-constituted realm of all England, and the evils of a minority were not long in showing themselves.

The advocate now took a bold step. He proposed that the States of Holland should, on their own authority, as a sovereign province, raise a local force of 4000 men (waardgelders) to keep the peace.

I.m content to feed Sasha to the Dark One piece by piece if that means we keep the peace.

Without her, Rhyn was a hazard to everything and everyone.  Maybe Death meant he would have to kill Rhyn to keep the peace.

The magistrate bound them all over to enter into their own recognizances to keep the peace for six months.

Not only did the constitution, which was modelled on the impossible Spanish constitution of 1812, prove unworkable, but the powers of the Grand Alliance, whose main object was to keep the peace of Europe, felt themselves bound to interfere to prevent the evil precedent of a successful military revolution.

Generals were selected by the Sanhedrin from the aristocracy, who had tried to keep the peace and still hoped to make terms with Rome.

By this means, we largely keep the peace.

Young people, who would be expected to do the dying if another war came, are generally more determined to keep the peace than their elders.

Henry Prentice for refusing to give sureties to keep the peace to all especially to his wife Hannah of Melford.

Using these solutions will help keep the peace in your house and enable you to keep your sanity.

During his military days, James protected the Queen and helped keep the peace in Kosovo.

Just don't bring your child with you, or you may end up getting it at the very first store to keep the peace.

He also lets people walk over him and tries to make things better to keep the peace.

This led to the establishment of podests, who represented a compromise between two radically hostile parties in the city, and whose business it was to arbitrate and keep the peace between them.