Sentence examples for pacification efforts from inspiring English sources

Setting up an inclusive, widely accepted local administration for Kismayu will be crucial for any pacification efforts.

Meanwhile, support for the South Vietnamese and attention to pacification efforts suffered from Westmoreland's intense interest in combat operations.

During the remainder of the 19th century, thousands of indigenous Californians were enslaved through the application of antivagrancy laws; similar numbers were killed during state-sponsored raids that were touted as "pacification" efforts.

But some who have joined the fighting against Mr. Hussein's militia have also expressed frustration at the American military's pacification efforts, which they say could limit the community's ability to defend itself against enemies.

Compounding the challenge further was the fact that Johnson fundamentally disagreed with the way Gen. William Westmoreland was conducting the war in Vietnam, emphasizing large operations in the deep jungles and using enemy body count as the sole measure of merit while neglecting pacification efforts and the improvement of South Vietnamese forces.

Last Monday, just days after saying that pacification efforts with the Iraqis were going "very, very well," Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience that Iraq is "a place that is having some real difficulties right now" and that "everything is in place if they want to have a civil war".

Or should the Americans mount a powerful pacification effort first?

He did not like the work, and soon applied for a civilian position advising the pacification effort in Vietnam.

Holbrooke arrived in Vietnam in 1963, and worked on the pacification effort in the Lower Mekong Delta.

The pacification campaign is a crucial element in the city's preparations for the tournament.

The term of that era for this kind of wartime aid effort was "pacification"; today it's "nation-building," and it reflects the idea that, in a counter-insurgency, the main battle is for the allegiance of the population.