How to Use peacekeeping in a Sentence

peacekeeping

noun

• Some of them have held out hope that Arab states would agree to send in a peacekeeping force.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• At least 22 members of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon were among the injured.
  — Fox News, 7 Aug. 2020
• Though sanctioned by the U.N., the force is not a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
• But such threats were quickly quelled in the past with the help of U.N. peacekeeping forces, Fatton said.
  — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 15 Oct. 2022
• The venue had hosted a base for the African Union peacekeeping force until late last year.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• One idea floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2022
• The size and duties of the peacekeeping force have not been specified.
  — Jim Heintz, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
• The Marines had been sent to Beirut, Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force in 1982.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The peacekeeping force in Mali is one of the deadliest in U.N. history, with more than 200 forces killed as of the end of August.
  — Baba Ahmed, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• The commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, Maj.
  — Fox News, 22 Sep. 2020
• The five soldiers killed in the helicopter crash on Nov. 12 were on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2020
• For a while after the Cold War, U.N. peacekeeping forces flourished.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The increase in peacekeeping placed greater financial strain on the UN.
  — Gary Wilson, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2019
• Moreover, there has not been a new peacekeeping mission to Africa since 2014.
  — Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
• An African Union peacekeeping force ousted the group from Mogadishu in 2011 and from the southern port of Kismayo the following year.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Troops even joined one UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• That was sort of the pinnacle of your peacekeeping efforts.
  — CBS News, 24 Feb. 2021
• One idea toward that reset floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
• Blue helmets have become a symbol of the U.N.’s peacekeeping efforts since the 1950s.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• Agape, a peacekeeping force whose staff includes ex-gang members from the neighborhood, is on contract with the city to keep watch over the area.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• The tragedy is that people believed that the U.N. peacekeeping forces stationed there would protect them.
  — Angelina Jolie, Time, 8 Mar. 2021
• Khalil Parsa, one of the chief organizers of the protest, said the hope was to convince the president and the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to Afghanistan.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• African Union peacekeeping forces, which helped to deter Al Shabab for years, are due to pull out by December.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Trying can take many forms, one of which is to keep your distance as part of a peacekeeping strategy.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
• The West will want to reduce Russia’s role and make its peacekeeping force leave after an agreement is signed.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
• Russia sought to take the lead in peacekeeping efforts due to the proximity of the conflict to its borders.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2022
• Russia maintains a peacekeeping force of around 1,500 troops in Transnistria, but that would be nowhere near enough to open a western front against Ukraine.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
• Three soldiers serving with the U.N. peacekeeping force in South Sudan were ordered home over the weekend, the force said in a statement.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
• Haiti has so far received a fraction of the resources it was promised and been frustrated in efforts to bring in a formal U.N. peacekeeping mission.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2024
• Both countries had deployed peacekeeping forces to Lebanon amid the 1982 Israeli invasion and outbreak of civil war.
  — Nicole Narea, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024