Sentence examples for difficult to pacify from inspiring English sources

All are areas that have proven persistently difficult to pacify since the American-led invasion of March 2003.

After the 2001 U.S.-led invasion aimed at eradicating a sanctuary for Al Qaeda, which carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, it proved relatively easy to oust the Taliban from power but difficult to pacify or unify a poverty-stricken country ruled by warlords.

The country's unruly tribes and mountainous landscape make the place hard to pacify.

Baquba, the capital of the ethnically mixed province of Diyala, has proved one of the more difficult areas to pacify.

It will be hard for them to pacify Mogadishu, even at full strength.

For whomever goes on the shows this weekend, it will be difficult to sound the right notes to pacify the public anger without totally scaring investors, both in the United States and abroad.

Stability in Afghanistan will be difficult to achieve unless Paki-stan coöperates more wholeheartedly in American-led efforts to pacify the Taliban.

That appears to pacify him.

Some have opted to pacify their detractors.

Clarke has tried to pacify critics.

Then she went in to pacify him.