Conversion was peaceful and gradual.

'Да будет мирным твой небосвод!

China likes to boast of its peaceful rise.

Everything had been peaceful in this fight.

You can solve the problem in nonviolent ways.

For years they tried to express their grievances through peaceful means.

This time, the protests were peaceful.

We urged that the parties involved settle the disputes peacefully.

Overall, however, the movement has remained peaceful and even joyous.

Given India s democratic traditions, it is likely that the change will be peaceful.

And, third, they must settle all disputes by peaceful means.

Serbs were justly proud a dictatorship was ended in a democratic, peaceful way.

Having heard the country was rather peaceful, he asked for an explanation.

Under his leadership, the long standing and painful Aceh conflict was peacefully resolved.

MUNICH Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge?

For increasingly rich Europeans, the summer of 1914 seemed a peaceful, lazy time.

But they need to do so in a peaceful manner, with regard to the rights of others.

Stagnating Japan has thus remained a peaceful and rather conservative society.

Everyone, not just Americans, has a stake in Russia prospering peacefully.

We intended fundamental changes, but we sought to introduce them in an evolutionary, peaceful way.

But, as someone who led a peaceful revolution, I hope that pride is tempered by pragmatism, because a change of regime is only the first step in establishing a democracy backed by the rule of law.

It is difficult to speculate, though in most countries, the process will be peaceful and democratic.

Egyptians and Tunisians are right to be proud of their desire to peacefully overthrow despotic governments.

You Stink has broadened its focus beyond officials' mishandling of the refuse problem following the closure of the country's largest landfill in July.

The democratic process has lost its aura and its thrust, not least because democratization seems to lead to the rise of political movements the West finds unacceptable.

Italy, for example, is under constant threat of cultural and economic separatism, albeit in a peaceful way.

The West s blind support for autocratic Arab rulers has reduced all hope of peaceful change.

And while about 100 developing countries gained independence, the process was not always peaceful.

But the election result has more to do with the dire state of the economy than it does with the peace process.

But the rise of Bismarck s Germany at the end of the nineteenth century was also peaceful for a while.

Instead, surgical military strikes based on an expanded intelligence effort should complement the peace process, prying extremists away from the MILF mainstream.

And they have to be willing to go out into the streets and reclaim it in a peaceful fashion, Janowitz says.

Is it true at least to say that more democracy would have made Singapore a less efficient, prosperous, and peaceful society?

For many years Bangladesh was an exception in the Islamic world, pursuing an independent course in a peaceful, secular, and democratic fashion.

This year's elections mark the first time power is handed peacefully from one democratically elected government to the next.

Sometimes it s hard to tell whether the thugs are civilians, or just security officers in mufti .

Hizb ut Tahrir itself claims to be a non violent Islamic movement committed to establishing a caliphate in Central Asia.

For its part, the international community must embrace Hamas s involvement in the pursuit of a peaceful settlement of the Palestine Israel conflict.

However, the celebrations were peaceful and joyful.

Japan may appear to be peaceful and tranquil on the surface but the fact is that there are a lot of deep rooted problems.

Until a few years ago, Islamabad was a quiet, orderly, modern city no different from any other in Pakistan. Still earlier, it was largely the abode of Pakistan s hyper elite and foreign diplomats.

But it's a trivial price to pay in order to make China's future more secure and peaceful for millions of Chinese.

The break up of the Soviet Union and its satellite empire shows that the way to address such a legacy is not to force unhappy peoples to live together in one country.

Every citizen also has the right to disagree with another s opinions and to express that disagreement in a peaceful, legal manner.

Until a few years ago, Islamabad was a quiet, orderly, modern city no different from any other in Pakistan.