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All of these are serious risks, of course; but none is as serious as the challenge of sustaining the peaceful character of China’s rise.
On April 7, 2009, Moldova made headlines when peaceful protests against unfair elections were hijacked by a small number of provocateurs who attacked the parliament building and presidential palace.
What modernity more or less inevitably brings about is not secularization but pluralism – the peaceful co-existence of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups in the same society.
The peaceful coexistence between the country's myriad ethnic, religious, and tribal groups is the result of a complex layer of concessions, compromises, tacit agreements, and other pragmatic arrangements perfected over the centuries.
Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.
Eventually, Russia will realize that it is in its own long-term interest to break its historical pattern, concentrate on its domestic development, and build peaceful and respectful relations with its neighbors.
We need a stable, prosperous, and peaceful Russia.
If China’s rise remains peaceful, it promises great benefits to its own people and to its neighbors – and to Americans.
It would be both tragic and ironic if a restored Germany, by peaceful means and with the best of intentions, brought about the ruin of the European order a third time.
would] afford a reasonable prospect of rendering the people on the frontier line between our territories and Afghanistan peaceful and friendly neighbors.”
But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
The "political" argument - that regional trade bodies promote peaceful foreign relations - is simply wrongheaded in the post-Soviet case.
It will also have to accept the wish of the huge majority of Palestinians for a peaceful settlement with Israel.
The majority of observant Muslims are peaceful, and most Islamists today have adopted more moderate, democratic politics.
And there are heartening reasons to believe that a self-governing Arab Middle East would wisely choose to become a peaceful global crossroads and a partner in science, culture, and development.
For years they tried to express their grievances through peaceful means.
As a political activist in the final days of Yugoslavia, I tried to build upon the philosophy of nonviolence, leading demonstrations and other forms of peaceful forms of dissent.
Our role in Afghanistan’s first-ever peaceful, democratic transition reminds us all that, having invested so much blood and treasure in helping to give Afghans a chance to succeed in battle, the world has just as much responsibility to help its leaders succeed in governance.
Most Israelis now believe that a peaceful solution will not come in their generation.
Indeed, early in the rebellion, Alawite and Sunni sheiks marched together in the streets of Latakia – the capital of the former Alawite state – to show their support for peaceful protest.
The US does not challenge China’s sovereignty, but it wants a peaceful settlement that will maintain Taiwan’s democratic institutions.
The desire of diplomats to find a peaceful solution to Ukraine’s crisis is understandable.
Indeed, it is here that Russia’s renewed confrontation with the West begins, because the new Europe is based on the principle of the inviolability of boundaries, peaceful conflict resolution, and the rule of law, so to forgo this principle for the benefit of imperial zones of influence would amount to self-abandonment.
His opinions, in articles published on the Internet, are entirely peaceful.
Why does a regime that appears to be so secure consider mere opinions, or even peaceful petitions, so dangerous?
But they need to do so in a peaceful manner, with regard to the rights of others.
Against this backdrop, stressing the existence and needs of a global community is necessary not only for economic reasons, but also to help ensure a peaceful world.
In Europe, that difference stems from two revolutions, one peaceful and wealth-enhancing (1688 in England), and the other violent and destructive (1789 in France).
And the Catalan government is confident that a repressive response by the Spanish authorities, reviving the images of police beating unarmed old women and teenagers that the world saw during the referendum on October 1, would pave the way for a peaceful rebellion within Catalonia and widespread international acquiescence.
The peaceful demonstrations of 1989 gave millions of Chinese people their first heady taste of political freedom, and a hope that they could have a say in their nation's public life.
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