keep the peace

Example Sentences

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But it would also keep the peace, making it harder for ICE to escalate conflicts with the community, while reducing feelings of frustration for activists.

From Salon

Skipp Townsend, who runs the violence prevention group 2nd Call, said he dispatched several of his outreach workers to the scene to keep the peace.

From Los Angeles Times

Nations in the Middle East and Africa have largely operated under the understanding that to keep the peace they won’t redraw borders set since independence.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here's how to deal with festive fallouts and keep the peace this Christmas.

From BBC

And in “Oh. What. Fun.,” things are no different, with a mother-daughter heart-to-heart between Pfeiffer and Jones that quickly digs to the nitty-gritty and goes to the place so many families try to avoid during the holiday season in an effort to keep the peace.

From Salon