Better keep peace than make peace.

保持和睦胜过讲和。

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Force cannot keep peace. Only mutual understanding can be.

武力不能维持和平。只有互相理解才可以。

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The decisions weren’t easy or popular, but were necessary to keep peace and order in a prison system where 10 percent of the inmates were serving life terms.

这样的决策既不容易，也不受欢迎，但对保持阿肯色州监狱系统的安宁与秩序却是必要的，因为这里10％的囚犯都被判处终身监禁。

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Europe depended on a balance of power to keep the peace.

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These protesters vow to keep the issue in front of the American public until peace and justice prevail in Darfur.

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For the U.N.to keep urging that peace be created first before a U.N.peacekeeping force can be sent continues to deny the Somali people badly-needed international forces to assist in the stabilization of that country,".

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But it would take tens of thousands of new troops to keep peace in the wild south.

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Blasphemy laws have been a part of life in Pakistan for 25 years, first instituted primarily to keep peace between religions, Hasan said.

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What should be done in Sierra Leone is obvious: Urge the Nigerians, who want to keep peace in their own backyard, to return and rout the rebels--with all expenses paid by the U.N.

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