Peaceful in a sentence as an adjective

How does that make a better, safer, more peaceful society?

We built stable, peaceful societies in a violent world.

Mandela was a symbol of non-peaceful resistance and of the progress that it can bring.

I meditated, quieted my mind, enjoyed my moments, and felt very peaceful while the world flew by.

It's entirely possible to be in support of a free and peaceful drug trade, while at the same time being morally against theft.

Or, frankly, any other peaceful activity which is in any way contrary to the ideals of a state of total surveillance.

I'm a peaceful person, but this issue has been simmering in my head for years, and I find myself actually looking forward to some kind of meaningful conflict.

His peaceful assumption of power and non-violent transition of government are his lasting legacies.

Along the way, people I know, including the father of one my children's godparents, were imprisoned for leading peaceful protests urging free and fair elections and a stop to censorship.

His violent struggle which resulted in his imprisonment became his advocacy for peaceful transformation.

Clearly in some cases peaceful criticism of violent religious practices, as well as harmless cartoons that are not even disparaging have lead to imminent lawless action.

Unlike most people who post here, I have actually lived under a dictatorial regime that ruled a territory that later had a peaceful transition to democracy and legally protected civil rights.

Several of the communist governments of eastern Europe were turned out of power largely peacefully when Western mass media made it all too apparent how different life was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

People are more likely to develop habits concordant with deviant and unlawful lifestyles, to make connections with criminal networks, and to learn new criminal skills in prison than to learn how to function properly in the peaceful world outside.

I think now the United States is much more interested in information openness as a means to make sure that countries all around the world trade peacefully rather than waging war one one another, and I think that is the only long-term way to defeat terrorist networks.

What it meant was that, although life seemed comfortable and peaceful now, Canada was spending so far beyond its means that, very soon, powerful Wall Street firms like Moodys and Standard and Poors would downgrade our national credit rating from its perfect Triple A status to something much lower.

If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have **** lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.

Peaceful definitions

adjective

not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war; "a peaceful nation"; "peaceful times"; "a far from peaceful Christmas"; "peaceful sleep"

See also: peaceable

adjective

peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"

See also: passive