What's the difference between irenic and peaceful?
Irenic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Irenical
Example Sentences:
(1) By the time we start producing, the prices will have gone up,” said Uganda’s energy minister, Irene Muloni.
(2) Predictably perhaps, black artists have been most successful in the best original song category, with Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Irene Cara among the five winners.
(3) He pulled up beside us and got into the back seat of Irene’s car.
(4) Irene Tu : ‘Read up on history and take self-defense classes’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I’m going to spend the next couple months reading, taking self-defense classes, and writing a ton of jokes.
(5) Irene Joan Sims, actor, born May 9 1930; died June 27 2001
(6) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
(7) Lead content was determined in the skeletal tissue of 82 individuals representing two black and two white Colonial American populations: Catoctin Furnace, College Landing, Governor's Land, and Irene Mound.
(8) Read more Irene Namusuubo Guloba, the headteacher, says: “Around 250 of our pupils did not come back this year.
(9) Home And Away stalwart Lynne McGranger, who's played Irene Roberts since 1992, is having trouble getting her head around legal highs.
(10) Irene Fogel Weiss, born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia, now Batrad, Ukraine.
(11) "Perhaps Irene puts it best – she certainly puts it most often – when she tells Tod that he has no soul."
(12) Yours sincerely, Irene B. Rosenfeld 7 September 2009 Dear Roger, Thank you for your letter in response to our discussion on 28 August and the letter I sent to you as a follow-up outlining our possible offer (a "Possible Offer") for Cadbury plc ("Cadbury").
(13) Their hits included Lead Belly's Goodnight, Irene , the Israel folk song Tzena, Tzena Tzena and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine : hardly the anthems of a coming revolution, but in 1952, at the height of the anti-communist witch hunt, their known sympathies got them blacklisted by radio and TV stations and concert promoters.
(14) The review, to be led by Irene Curtis, the president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, is to be used to detail the use of targets in each force and to analyse their impact on police officers’ ability to fight crime.
(15) Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld had phoned Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr on Sunday to set up the secret 11am meeting, and the two shook hands on the £12bn deal in the sumptuous five-star surroundings.
(16) 1.32pm GMT The latest medal table Norway still lead , with the Netherlands moving up to second after Irene Wust’s triumph.
(17) So her fellow Dutch lady Irene Wust wins gold, the former champion Martina Sablikova takes silver – and Olga Graf wins Russia’s first medal of the Games.
(18) Merkel has held the top spot since 2006, except in 2010 when she was surpassed by three American women: first lady Michelle Obama, Mondelez International CEO Irene Rosenfeld, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
(19) The instant Irene Adler's scarlet-tipped fingers extended across the frame on Sunday night, it seemed certain that Steven Moffat's rewriting of Sherlock Holmes's famed female adversary would cause some consternation.
(20) Mas, who governed Catalonia from 2010 to 2016, will appear at the high court in Barcelona on Monday along with former vice-president Joana Ortega and former education minister Irene Rigau.
Peaceful
Definition:
(a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.
(a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
(10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
(13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
(16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
(18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.