So both groups proceeded peacefully toward each other.

In any event, the gathering proceeded peacefully, and in far smaller numbers than opposition leaders had predicted.

The invasion proceeded largely peacefully, since the Swiss people failed to respond to the calls of their politicians to take up arms.

They have delivered public and private messages urging the dictator to leave Iraq so that disarmament can proceed peacefully.

In Leipzig, a demonstration by 70,000 was allowed to proceed peacefully.

Unlike a student protest earlier in the week that burst into fits of violence, this one proceeded peacefully.

Voting was held at 4,457 stations across the country and proceeded peacefully, with only a single isolated incident of violence reported in Barclayville.

Politically, we are thereby also paying tribute to the results of a reform process which, unfortunately, has not always proceeded peacefully over the years.

However, the majority took an opposite view, arguing the need to proceed peacefully.

Voting proceeded smoothly and peacefully, with no reports of violence.