What is "keep the peace"

Usage examples of "keep the peace".

You have taken me from poverty, and given me rank, wealth, and a proud place in the world: let it be my work to keep the peace which God has permitted me to establish between you and your father!

Harry spent the day attempting to keep the peace between Ron and Hermione with no success.

It takes some watching and praying to keep the peace in the soul that God has given.

Such a large audience increased the dangers of disturbance, and he considered sending a runner to the barracks for more soldiers to keep the peace.

You will understand now how it was that I strove to keep the peace with him, and you will in some measure sympathize with me in the fears which fill me, now that he has gone from me to his other victim with threats upon his tongue.

Martin, how can we keep the peace if you will not let us have ships and men?

As has happened in recorded human history, overlords tried to keep the peace among their children by dividing the land among the heirs.

Teller has contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous.

Smith did not think much of the ilium site but chose to keep the peace and yielded.

But if this were so, as the arguments on both sides are equally clear, it would still remain impossible ever to find out on which side the truth lies, and the suit continues, although both parties have been ordered to keep the peace before the tribunal of reason.