We might be able to help them in a peaceful evolution to democracy.

After all, who makes violent revolution inevitable if not those who make peaceful evolution impossible?

Chinese articles have said that the United States defined peaceful evolution as a strategy in the late 1940's.

"Even though the Chinese leaders hate that term, what they are doing, with their reform and open-door policy, is precisely peaceful evolution."

Experience has shown moreover that peaceful evolutions are possible in this regard.

On the one hand, Nicholas could have worked positively to ease the way towards peaceful constitutional evolution.

"That's what everybody wants to see, is a peaceful evolution in Lithuania."

Instead of the peaceful evolution in keeping with the peace agreement, the elections would lead to further dramatic tensions.

The United States position has been that we want to see a peaceful evolution.

But I do think the framework of a peaceful evolution of this relationship was there.