Sentence examples for and the pacification of from inspiring English sources

Ghent was a prominent leader in this struggle during the 1570s and '80s, and the Pacification of Ghent, which united the northern and southern provinces of the Netherlands in the resistance against Spain, was signed in the city in 1576.

While indigenous peoples in the US and New Zealand suffered similar catastrophes during and after the "opening" of the American west and the pacification of Māori resistance, one country's treaty emerged as central to public and legal life while the other country's treaties remained marginal.

Reflecting on this sad situation, Nichiren is said to have read once again all the Buddhist scriptures and in 1260 published a short tract, Risshō ankoku ron ("The Establishment of Righteousness and the Pacification of the Country"), in which he stated that the deplorable state of the country was due to the people's refusal to follow true Buddhism and their support of false sects.

It is that a "Two State Solution" to the Palestinian Israeli conflict is at hand, impeded primarily by Israeli right wing intransigence, and that such a "solution" is crucial for the stabilization and the pacification of the region as a whole and for a major improvement of Arab public attitudes towards the U.S. and Europe.

Instead of fermenting upheaval in Sunni-ruled regimes with sizable Shiite populations -- as it once did in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait -- Iran could aid in the politicization and, when necessary, the pacification of dissidents and insurgents throughout the region.

Russian forces fought two wars in Chechnya in the 1990s, and Putin cites the pacification of Chechnya as one of the main achievements of his early years in power.

He was reportedly the first Merina leader to receive Europeans around 1620 and traded slaves in exchange for guns and other firearms to aid in the pacification of rival principalities, obtaining 50 guns and three barrels of gunpowder to equip his army.

Talleyrand supported him and returned to the foreign ministry on November 22. Talleyrand's principal aim was the pacification of Europe, and he began negotiation with the belligerent countries.

Hoche quickly rounded up the invaders, and by July 1796 he had completed the pacification of the Vendée.

Like so much about the fluid military campaign so far, the start of what the Bush administration calls "Phase Four" -- the pacification of Iraq and the creation of an interim government as rebuilding begins -- may be hard to pin down.

Pillarization had received official confirmation in the Pacification of 1917 and removed most of the tinder from Dutch politics, but it also kept ordinary Dutchmen ideologically separated from each other to a greater degree than in most other Western countries.