Sentence examples for pacify and from inspiring English sources

His objectives were to pacify and settle the tribes, encourage cultivation, and improve tax collection.

"We are committed to undertaking a number of demonstrable and visible initiatives to disrupt, pacify and to isolate the P.K.K".

Its captivating face, twinkling eyes, sweetly singing smile and attention-grabbing vibrations charm, pacify and entertain most children.

But I find it reassuring that an officer of John Nagl's caliber has become a major player in our efforts to pacify and rebuild 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.

He has fewer soldiers than his predecessors in the 1991 war, is surrounded by an often hostile population and is expected to pacify and administer a city of dizzying ethnic and political complexity.

This was back in the time when we rewarded, pacified and bribed children with sweets.

The spirits of trees need to be pacified, and the ancestors can be powerful helpers.

Despite lingering protests, most of the dispossessed have been pacified and paid off.

An empire had been gained but still had to be pacified and organized.

They are probably left over from ancient viral infections that were pacified and recruited by evolution to do something useful.