But in the late nineteen-sixties and seventies, in understandings with the government and with Texaco, Rachel Saint and other North American missionaries … conducted a program of pacification that, with the aid of magic and trinkets — airplanes and salt — lured the Huaorani into a small protectorate on the far western edge of their traditional lands.
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".
Another list having to do with pacification listed "maximum number of points" that could be won for full accomplishment of each task... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb.
There's another tactical problem with pacification that never would have occurred to me: Violence aside, the move basically shoved the richest people – the criminals – out of the favela, creating a need for a new livelihood for merchants and survival-level entrepreneurs (like the boy to your right and his family) in these neighborhoods.
In some favelas, Rio's police engage in "pacification" – "patrolling neighbourhoods with their finger on the trigger where people are just doing their normal business..
Following Binh Ba, the remainder of the regiment's commitment to Vietnam would be characterised largely by the policies of "Pacification" and "Vietnamization", with an emphasis on ambushing and patrolling to protect the local population and training South Vietnamese troops to increasingly replace US and allied forces.
Vipassana refers to insight into the true nature of reality, entailing an understanding of the impermanence of everything that exists, which is coupled with pacification (serenity) of the mind [ 67, pages 1287-1288 (IV.1410)].
Rio's governor, Sérgio Cabral, was resoundingly re-elected in October, largely because of the success of the program to invade slums with elite police units, then occupy them with "police pacification units," or community police officers.
Wallenstein meant to bring about the pacification of the empire, with himself as arbiter; for this he had to keep his army intact and under his control.
He was preoccupied with the pacification of Syria until 275, when, utilizing Indian elephants brought from the east, he defeated the Gauls, who were afterward settled by their allies in Phrygia to make it a buffer state.
