How to Use peace dividend in a Sentence

peace dividend

noun

• The economy enjoyed an era of growth, helped by the peace dividend.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• There have been times over my career when, for instance, during the peace dividend time, when a Cessna light aircraft crashed on the lawn of the White House.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
• Too young to remember when defense spending dropped, the budget balanced and politicians bickered over a peace dividend.
  — George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• And a continuation of decades of the post-Cold War peace dividend may be equally improbable.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Veterans were attending college on the GI Bill and many citizens felt entitled to a peace dividend.
  — John Avlon, CNN, 7 June 2022
• Aside from power returning, the peace dividends from dismantling the Sweeney Fortified Compound are many.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The post-Cold War peace dividend brought congressional budget caps in the late 1990s that had the armed services yearning to jettison aging or underutilized bases.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2018
• European leaders cashed in their peace dividend on health care systems and neglected their militaries.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• Shea is genuinely pleased by how far crime has fallen, and optimistic that CompStat can take advantage of the peace dividend to improve community relations.
  — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Mar. 2018
• It is meant to offer the Palestinians a peace dividend, an incentive to accept his (perhaps) forthcoming political vision.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024