Sentence examples for in 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.

Related: Hillary Clinton used personal email for all government business, says report Despite her advisers handing over 55,000 pages of her emails in an effort to pacify federal record-keepers, this is potentially still an egregious breach of security.

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.

A14 Sharon Tries to Appease Critics The day before the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, faces sharp debate about his policies at his Likud Party convention, his government made an effort to pacify his critics, issuing tenders for 1,001 new, government-subsidized apartments for settlers in the occupied territories.

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.

Now, the emphasis is on building up American forces to cope with the widening conflict, and on using American forces anywhere in Iraq there are insurgent threats, including areas of the south that have until now being assigned to troops from more than 30 other nations that have joined in the effort to pacify Iraq.

More important, it makes clear that the United States will pay a high price in blood and treasure if the Bush administration persists in its misguided effort to pacify and rebuild Iraq without extensive international support.