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keep the peace
Maintain public order; prevent strife. For example, President Clinton ordered troops to Bosnia to keep the peace. This expression dates from the 1400s and was originally used more in the first sense, that is, of police keeping public order. It gained extra currency in the second half of the 1900s when military forces were sent to diverse places—Lebanon, Haiti, Bosnia—to stop warring factions.
Example Sentences
Police were dispatched to keep the peace and mostly were successful, the governor continued.
Within 36 hours of a peaceful protest on Monday evening, 32 police officers had been injured as the authorities struggled to keep the peace.
Now, law enforcement from across Southern California are descending on L.A. to keep the peace.
"I shrink to keep the peace, hoping I don't shake my purpose."
The president has thus far been reluctant to go down that route, suggesting the presence of US mining firms on the ground in Ukraine would be enough to keep the peace.
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