How to Use peacekeeping in a Sentence

peacekeeping

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  • Some of them have held out hope that Arab states would agree to send in a peacekeeping force.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Though sanctioned by the U.N., the force is not a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • But such threats were quickly quelled in the past with the help of U.N. peacekeeping forces, Fatton said.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 15 Oct. 2022
  • One idea floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The size and duties of the peacekeeping force have not been specified.
    — Jim Heintz, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • For a while after the Cold War, U.N. peacekeeping forces flourished.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • One idea toward that reset floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Blue helmets have become a symbol of the U.N.’s peacekeeping efforts since the 1950s.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Agape, a peacekeeping force whose staff includes ex-gang members from the neighborhood, is on contract with the city to keep watch over the area.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Khalil Parsa, one of the chief organizers of the protest, said the hope was to convince the president and the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to Afghanistan.
    — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
  • African Union peacekeeping forces, which helped to deter Al Shabab for years, are due to pull out by December.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The West will want to reduce Russia’s role and make its peacekeeping force leave after an agreement is signed.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
  • Russia sought to take the lead in peacekeeping efforts due to the proximity of the conflict to its borders.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Russia maintains a peacekeeping force of around 1,500 troops in Transnistria, but that would be nowhere near enough to open a western front against Ukraine.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Tony and Bruce put their massive brains together and try to use the A.I. to jumpstart the peacekeeping program Ultron, but things don't go as planned.
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Tensions have grown between Mali's junta and the U.N. peacekeeping force.
    — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 22 July 2022
  • Three days later, dozens of men, women, and children walked to the gates of the peacekeeping headquarters to demand answers.
    — Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The bloc has also deployed peacekeeping forces, mainly from Nigeria to war zones such as Sierra Leone and Liberia.
    — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Kenya at one point even floated the idea of deploying an armed African peacekeeping force to eastern Congo.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Here’s a look at violence against UN peacekeeping forces.
    — CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • For instance, Poland plans to propose a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine -- a move the U.S. has effectively ruled out.
    — Byshannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Rumors began to circulate that the source of the outbreak was a base that housed United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • And there have been several military and peacekeeping missions in the past 35 years.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Kenya has in the past played a major role in supporting UN peacekeeping initiatives and African Union peace missions.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But understand that the burden of peacekeeping is not 100 percent on your shoulders.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the attack, said the episode involved local villagers and one of the two Unifil peacekeeping vehicles.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Russia helped broker a truce and dispatched a peacekeeping force there that remains deployed.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Netflix Close plays the King of Diamonds, one of the leaders of the international peacekeeping agency known as the Charter.
    — Temi Adebowale, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The passengers made contact with Mogadishu again at 2 p.m., and after that call, the African Union peacekeeping force was informed of the incident and a request was made to pick up the crew, the two officials said.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Video shows large crowds of frightened civilians, many with young children, seeking shelter at a Russian peacekeeping base.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023

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