Conducted Without Violence

Conducted without violence. 79 letters. A crossword clue in Daily Mail UK quick puzzle on Monday 7 Aug 2017.

Answer: BLOODLESS

He knew that love of novelty and contempt for the gouty old king and his greedy courtiers had brought about this bloodless triumph; and he felt instinctively that he had to deal with a new France, which would not tolerate despotism.

Battles became all but bloodless; diplomacy and tactics superseded feats of arms and hard blows in pitched fields.

The science of insects began with Aristotle, who included in a class “Entoma” the true insects, the arachnids and the myriapods, the Crustacea forming another class (“Malacostraca”) of the “Anaema” or “bloodless animals.”