The gentle rocking and melodious singing helped pacify the crying baby. From LearnThat.org.
The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Kabila's government has vowed to "pacify" the territory, but the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So this might've been sent out to them as a way to kind of pacify the troops. From Wordnik.com. [Justice vs. CIA] Reference
I believe we could "pacify" Iraq through brutal application of force resulting in genocide-like slaughter. From Wordnik.com. ["A calculated gamble that no matter how much hue and cry his new strategy may provoke, in the end the American people will give him more time..."] Reference
As in Vietnam, the goal would seem to be to install a regime run by the United States and to "pacify" the country into accepting it. From Wordnik.com. [Harvey Wasserman: Obama's LBJ Moment] Reference
Following the conquest, Roman soldiers were dispatched to "pacify" the restive streets of the newly conquered city. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Some of them failed to garner enough support during the general election and yet they are appointed to 'pacify' everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Malaysiakini] Reference
Now Washington is fighting a much costlier war there giving different excuses, but it still can't "pacify" the Afghan people. From Wordnik.com. [Workers World news online] Reference
No one applauded or rushed to shake the hand of the man who had orchestrated the program to "pacify" Rio's slums ahead of the 2014. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"I did kind of pacify her the other night when we were late from our walk, didn't. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
They can pacify the gods by giving the priests a lot of money. From Wordnik.com. [After A Life Of Slavery] Reference
Ground forces would have to pacify large parts of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Ethnic Cleansing] Reference
Tossing Frohnmayer over the side of the NEA didn't pacify Pat. From Wordnik.com. [Is Buchanan Running The Country?] Reference
Plea bargain: Sununu made similar efforts to pacify other critics. From Wordnik.com. [Sununu And The Jews] Reference
So I started doing and saying whatever I thought might pacify Marc. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And Me] Reference
We might be able to pacify Baghdad, but will the calm last after the we leave?. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward] Reference
Instead of inflaming and dividing people, they aim to pacify on common ground. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Of Family Values] Reference
But rest assured, I'll try my best to mitigate and pacify any sort of differences. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The Middle] Reference
But it's no indication that the battle to pacify the rest of Iraq is even close to being won. From Wordnik.com. ['Better Friends Than Enemies'] Reference
America has been trying to pacify Afghanistan essentially through a counterterrorist campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Vietnam] Reference
Now he was on the phone, trying to pacify right-to-lifers upset that he would not make Des Moines. From Wordnik.com. [The Usual Suspects] Reference
"All it would take," he said bitterly, "is one jeep flying an American flag to pacify this place.". From Wordnik.com. [Into Somalia] Reference
One is that he -- and not just Clinton -- has to pacify competing Democratic Party interest groups. From Wordnik.com. [Gore's World] Reference
When this confrontation began, he did a deal to pacify his border with Iran by giving back that land. From Wordnik.com. ['Keep The Pressure Up'] Reference
Two successive major operations to pacify Baghdad, Together Forward I and II, were complete flops in the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Truman Show] Reference
If the U.S. Army couldn't secure such a vital chokepoint, it would never be able to pacify the rest of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The New Way Out] Reference
He's built his own party one e-mail address at a time, even as he is now trying to pacify Clintonian traditionalists. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers in Arms] Reference
"It's not an attempt to pacify Natal," said Jakkie Cilliers, director of the Institute for Defense Policy in Johannesburg. From Wordnik.com. [Ballots Or Bullets] Reference
Americans seem to accept that more troops may be required to pacify Iraq, but the appetite for a long stay is very limited. From Wordnik.com. [The Vietnam Question] Reference
The latest plan to pacify Baghdad -- announced in June, declared a failure in October -- was called Operation Together Forward. From Wordnik.com. [Togetherness In Baghdad] Reference
You need particulars to pacify skeptics in your own party on issues as touchy as abortion, federal taxes and affirmative action. From Wordnik.com. [Family Feuds] Reference
American forces often, it seems, play whack-a-mole — they can pacify an area, but as soon as they leave, the insurgents come back. From Wordnik.com. [Refusing to Lose] Reference
At the heart of Musharraf's predicament is the failure of his plan to pacify pro-Taliban tribesmen in Waziristan with a peace accord. From Wordnik.com. [Running Out of Options] Reference
"We only needed three divisions to win this war," says one ORHA official, "but we'll need seven or eight to really pacify the country.". From Wordnik.com. [Our New Civil War] Reference
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