Sentence examples similar to Pacify unrest from inspiring English sources
Although it was never formally reinstated, the peasant militia system was frequently attempted by local gentry and officials as a way of pacifying the countryside in times of unrest.
Alarmed by the unrest, the central government has sought to pacify the region with a combination of largess and an iron fist.
The force has a mandate for 12,000 peacekeepers, but African Union officials say they would need 20,000 to try to pacify the entire country, which has been in a state of civil unrest for roughly 20 years.
By some estimates, Nigeria now exports only half of what it should: Angola has taken over as sub-Saharan Africa's biggest producer.Despite floating various well-meaning plans to pacify the Delta, the government has failed to stop the region's unrest.
Although, the Decree was softened to pacify the agitated public, its implementation was still vehemently opposed causing another social unrest.
Suppression of the Iranian Kurdish insurgency in the 1980s was but one instance of post-revolution Iranian efforts to pacify the country's minorities amid suspicions that Iran's multiple distractors had sought to fuel ethnic unrest.
But we pacify ourselves".
Quell means to silence, pacify.
That appears to pacify him.
