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peace noun accord, adjustment of differences, alliance, amity, armistice, brotherhood, calm, coexistence, community of interests, conciliation, concordance, concordancy, concordia, consentaneity, consentaneousness, cooperation, end of hostilities, fraternalism, freedom from war, friendliness, good will, harmoniousness, harmony, hush, law and order, lull, neutrality, oneness, order, orderliness, otium, pacification, pact, pax, quiescence, quiet, quietness, rapport, reconciliation, repose, serenity, silence, stillness, suspension of hostilities, tranquility, treaty, truce, unanimity, unity Associated concepts: breach of the peace, disturbing the peace, peace officer Foreign phrases: Paci sunt maxime contraria vis et injuria.Violence and injury are especially hostile to peace. See also: composure, concordance, lull, reconciliation PEACE. The tranquillity enjoyed by a political society, internally, by the good order which reigns among its members, and externally, by the good understanding it has with all other nations. Applied to the internal regulations of a nation, peace imports, in a technical sense, not merely a state of repose and security, as opposed to one of violence and warfare, but likewise a state of public order and decorum. Ham. N. P. 139; 12 Mod. 566. Vide, generally, Bac. Ab. Prerogative, D 4; Hale, Hist. P. C. 160; 3 Taunt. R. 14; 1 B. & A. 227; Peake, R. 89; 1 Esp. R. 294; Harr. Dig. Officer, V 4; 2 Benth. Ev. 319, note. Vide Good behaviour; Surety of the peace. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In this case, these customers range across a broad spectrum of activity and geography, from peace-time operations to warfare, in the continental United States and abroad. Special importance in this connection belongs to the need to revise the views on command and control of mixed arms groupings of forces (troops) in the interest of enhancing their operational effectiveness in addressing defensive tasks as well as in assisting other troops of the Russian Federation to accomplish various peace-time missions. This deterrence is based on the capability of the RF Armed Forces in peace-time to put the country on a war footing in a timely manner, to ensure strategic deployment of the Army and the Navy in order to repulse an act of aggression in an armed conflict on any scale and in any strategic sector, and to inflict on a possible aggressor damage that would be too great for it and would outweigh any potential gains. |
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