Sentence examples for an effort to pacify from inspiring English sources

In an effort to pacify Morocco, economizing politicians were ready for compromise with tribal leaders, but the generals saw conquest as the only solution.

JPMorgan Chase raised its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, to $10 a share Monday morning in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders.

Beijing, alarmed by a spate of Uighur attacks on the police and Chinese migrants from the east, has bolstered economic development in Xinjiang, but it has also employed heavy-handed tactics in an effort to pacify the region.

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Numerous rebellions were quashed by the state in the early part of the century and hundreds of thousands have been displaced and killed in an effort to pacify the south-east.

Much as it did in Tibet, in an effort to pacify another restive ethnic region, the government has spent huge sums of money to try to help Xinjiang's economy catch up to eastern China, where income and production are on average twice as high.

Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in terrorist attacks, and several hundred village elders, critical figures in any efforts to pacify the tribal areas, have been killed as well.

In some cases, we feel that he has erred on the side of caution far too often in an effort to placate, pacify or, at the very least, neutralize his critics who monitor every comment he makes and are ready to pounce on or, in many cases, distort comments he makes in regards to the issue.

He added: "If there were a United-Nations mandated force and there was an international effort to pacify Iraq, they would all feel more comfortable contributing to it.

For five years, the Ugandan military has been leading the African Union's effort to pacify Somalia, a country that has been mired in chaos and warfare since its government collapsed 21 years ago.

"This effort to pacify the favelas is a failure, the police violence is only replacing what the drug gangs carried out before".