Crossword clues for peacemaker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peacemaker \Peace"mak`er\, n.
One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at
variance.
--Matt. v. 9.
[1913 Webster]
-- Peace"mak`ing, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person who restores peace, especially by settle disputes.
WordNet
n. someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler]
a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War [syn: Browning machine gun]
Wikipedia
The Peacemaker is the name of a series of superheroes originally owned by Charlton Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. The original Peacemaker first appeared in Fightin' 5 #40 (Nov. 1966), and was created by writer Joe Gill and artist Pat Boyette.
PeaceMaker is a video game developed by ImpactGames, and published in February 2007 for Windows and Mac OS. It is a government simulation game which simulates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Labelled as a serious game, it is often pitched as "a video game to promote peace".
The game was originally a university project started in 2005 by a small team from the Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating, two of the members founded a game development company in order to finish the project.
Peacemaker players can choose to represent either the leader of Israel or the Palestinian Authority. They have to deal with events presented using real world pictures and footage. They have to react and make social, political, and military decisions that their position entails within a gameplay system similar to turn-based strategy. The goal of the game is to solve the conflict with the two-state solution.
PeaceMaker was well received by both the gaming and general press and won several awards. Critics praised its gameplay and the accuracy of the conflict representation. It is seen as an important game for the serious game movement and is becoming a flagship of the genre. Its educational value allows for a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and promotes peace.
Peacemaker is a BBC Books original novel written by James Swallow and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It was published on December 26, 2007, alongside The Pirate Loop and Wishing Well.
Peacemaker is a 1990 American film directed by Kevin Tenney.
' Peacemaker ' is the third studio album from red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition. The album was released on August 14, 2012 and reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. The singles, "Damn You to Hell" and " Turn It Up", were the first by the band to chart on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, peaking at 40 and 39, respectively.
Usage examples of "peacemaker".
B-39 Peacemaker force has been tasked by SIOP with maintaining an XK-Pluto capability directed at ablating the ability of the Russians to activate Project Koschei, the dormant alien entity they captured from the Nazis at the end of the last war.
Colt Peacemaker except a larger, more dramatic version of my own cerebrovascular accident?
Blessed be the peacemakers who create a diverse, nonsexist working environment in paperless offices.
If he could pull this off, Barnett would be anointed by segregationist multitudes as virtually the Second Coming of Christ, as both peacemaker and conqueror.
King Hussein flew on Air Force One with me to a Summit of Peacemakers hosted by President Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh, a beautiful resort on the Red Sea favored by European scuba-diving enthusiasts.
This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection-slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.
AT PARIS AND PHILADELPHIA all the while, movements were under way to dislodge John Adams as sole American peacemaker in Europe.
On August 24, with the arrival of a packet of letters from Congress sent on by Franklin from Paris, Adams learned that his commission as peacemaker had been revoked and a new commission established.
IT HAD BEEN NINE YEARS since the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, eight years since Lexington and Concord, seven since the Declaration of Independence, and more than three years since John Adams had last left home in the role of peacemaker.
In the house in Marchmont Street the Peacemaker was also speaking of Cambridgeshire, in fact specifically of the Scientific Establishment there.
Somehow, in the midst of such confusion and noise, while fumbling to free his shriveled pecker, Amarante dislodged his Colt Peacemaker instead, which fell into the urinal with a clang, announcing the arrival of Horsethief Shorty, followed closely by Marvin LaBlue, and then Charley Bloom with his daughter, Maria, who immediately freaked at the sight of these old and middle-aged men laughing and chattering in Spanish and smoking cigarettes, completely and cacophonously cluttering up the tiny room.
He was a peacemaker, whatever the Hamiltonians might say, and the American people did not hold that against him.
From a tin box on whose cover fading blue asters had been painted Amarante then removed a well-oiled revolver, an old, very heavy Colt Peacemaker.
Amarante removed his huge Peacemaker from its scabbard, and, holding it in both hands after laboriously cocking the hammer, he aimed for almost a minute at the blackbird, then pulled the trigger.
This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.