A wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Another important element of the pacification was the maintenance of freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The indigenous past of Zacatecas] Reference
But the news of the governor-general's arrival struck them with consternation, and vakeels were sent to Agra, to learn on what terms a pacification might yet be effected. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
There are several reasons why the "pacification" of the region has failed. From Wordnik.com. [War Clouds in the Caucasus] Reference
He first came to note with the infamous "pacification" program in Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Foreign Policy] Reference
It was in line with our "pacification" (genocide) of the native Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican American War - Take sides] Reference
So "defenseless villages are bombarded from the air (and) this is called 'pacification'.". From Wordnik.com. [Terrorism Defined] Reference
In fact, if any of us were involved in the Pentagon's "pacification" plans we'd probably be doing the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Death Squad Democracy] Reference
We haven't been bombed, invaded, occupied by a foreign power, subjected to 'pacification' and 'collateral damage'. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: Why Americans Are Such Nervous Nellies] Reference
We should remember that the Peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of "pacification" which began even before. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Anti-war protestors broke the will of the military industrial complex to continue their genocidal "pacification" of the Vietnamese. From Wordnik.com. [Shed Your Addiction:] Reference
Like "pacification" and "rectification of frontiers," these markers of unstated policy were floating metaphors with a low yield of fact. From Wordnik.com. [Euphemism and American Violence] Reference
In The Matter of Yamashita it confirmed the conviction and death sentence of the Japanese general whose troops did such a fine job of 'pacification' in the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Is Anyone Guilty? If So, Who?] Reference
Haditha is the inevitable upshot of military invasion and occupation; it fits into the familiar pattern of serial-killing that is listed under the rubric of "pacification". From Wordnik.com. [The Media��s Bloody Footprints] Reference
Successful "pacification" and occupation may require a. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
His disillusion with the "pacification" policy was complete. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
It is the same policy as the American "pacification" program in Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09] Reference
Finally, in August of 1793 the government ordered a "pacification" of the area. From Wordnik.com. [Verum Serum] Reference
This idea is implicit in the story of France's "pacification" of the Algerian interior. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
In these towns they pursued means of 'pacification' resembling those employed at Brescia. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberation of Italy] Reference
Now entering the seventh year of "pacification" in Iraq, these fictions are only getting worse. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
A 'pacification' initiative aims to drive out armed gangs and drug traffickers, who control most of Rio's favelas. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But their "pacification" would be the lingering task in which lives, time, and money would be lost beyond all recompense. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference
Orwell worried about authoritarian treatment of language - about warmongers 'calling bombardment "pacification," for example. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
For the past two years authorities have been cracking down on crime in a "pacification" program in several city favelas, including Rocinha. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
In the 1970s and 80s a similar policy was in place in central America as part of the US strategy of "pacification", later "counterinsurgency". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Of all his military operations, this "pacification" of the western towns and provinces was the most conspicuously successful and the one which gave. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow's End] Reference
The purpose of American "pacification" of this wilderness was to pave the spiritual and political soil of village identity to make it accessible to American tanks. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
Under directives from Guy Mollet's SFIO government, the French Army initiated a campaign of "pacification" of what was considered at the time to be fully part of France. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
"pacification" during the later years of the Vietnam War. From Wordnik.com. [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference
"pacification" of what was considered at the time to be fully part of France. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
"pacification", starting in 1971, to be completed, and Gaza is not going to be tamed now. From Wordnik.com. [Annie's letters] Reference
May he live to accomplish the pacification of Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
And when Aidid resisted pacification, the peacekeepers fell to squabbling among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Pitfalls Of Peacekeeping] Reference
The point of our pacification operations was always described as "winning the hearts and minds of the people.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard] Reference
After the general pacification of 1815, the suppression of African piracy was universally felt to be a necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The eastern immigration agents of the railroad were spreading the news of Ascalon's pacification with gratifying result. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
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