Sentences with phrase «peacemaking efforts»

Gavrich blames the western nations and their peacemaking efforts for the death of his daughter and wife, who were killed in a random attack in Sarajevo.

As a commissioner to the 1980 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, I was convinced that the church's new peacemaking efforts needed «a good dose of Niebuhr.»

When a president can say «I am not a crook» and people learn that that means «I am a crook» and when «peacemaking efforts» mean invasions of war, the people become suspicious of words — and rightly so.

So we worked for months on a cover story looking at the conflict in the Holy Land — why it's happening, peacemaking efforts, the (forgotten) story of the Church there and the eye - opening narratives our generation has to grapple with.

Not exact matches

Those efforts did not always bear fruit, although charter sources indicate that the mayor's philosophical antipathy toward charters was more to blame than Buery's attempts at peacemaking.

Eventually they become deaf to each other's efforts at peacemaking.