Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "peace-keeping".
Everyone knows debt is to be paid only by child-but cannot prosecute on basis of what 'everyone knows,' especially on Kezdet, where entire legal and peace-keeping system is corruptly in pay of factory owners.
As he spoke, a series of formative thoughts fled through his awareness -- the peace-keeping function of the marketplace, the deliberate despecialization of manufacture with one village making the head of the hoe and the next village making the handle, the psychological security of guilds and castes .
As he spoke, a series of formative thoughts fled through his awareness -- the peace-keeping function of the marketplace, the deliberate despecialization of manufacture with one village making the head of the hoe and the next village making the handle, the psychological security of guilds and castes .
If we take out the remaining military powers on our frontiers, we can probably cut back to something more like a peace-keeping posture of our own.
Now if the Ekumen, as an experiment in the superorganic, does eventually fail, it will have to become a peace-keeping force, develop a police, and so on.