Example sentences for: peacekeeping

How can you use “peacekeeping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The coverage reports that although the (mostly Australian) peacekeeping troops found calm at the airstrip where they touched down, the Australian general in overall command said his forces would respond "robustly" to any armed resistance.

  • Despite French support for military intervention, most countries continue to oppose sending in a peacekeeping force without Indonesian approval."

  • The NYT depicts the U.N. report as striking in its institutional candor: Although commissioned by the current Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the report criticizes him and his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for failing to take decisive action as the peacekeeping troops on the ground in Rwanda reported back about the Hutu militia's plans for ethnic attacks against Tutsis and about their accumulating weapons caches towards that end.

  • The cover editorial on terrorism says Middle East radicals hate the United States because of America's peacekeeping efforts in the region.

  • The plan is, the papers report, for the peacekeeping troops to make possible a large-scale humanitarian aid effort very shortly.


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