"I was working 60-80 hours a week, plus I was studying, so all my free time was spent pacifying myself with an accumulation of possessions.
"Why don't we make eliminating poverty in Rio and pacifying all the violent slums our goal for 2016?" says André Urani of the Institute for Studies on Labour and Society, a think-tank in the city.
Far from pacifying the republic and restoring normal life, the Kremlin has installed a "vicious client regime" that rules by "larcenous brutality .Chechnya has often been a pawn in Russia's internal power-struggles and related swindles, and Mr Wood is right to highlight the Kremlin's cynicism, incompetence and casual brutality.
This has left the job of pacifying Fallujah and other restive parts of Iraq to an American army that is stretched too thin and shows every sign of having reacted with excessive force.
Governments are promising ever more severe budget cuts in the hope of pacifying bond markets.
That could weigh the province's demographic balance even further against Balochs.Pakistan's previous attempts at pacifying Balochistan do not inspire confidence.
Until richer countries move to legalise the drug, removing the superprofits and violence that its illegal status attracts, even an exceptional leader, such as Mr Uribe, will struggle to complete the task of pacifying his country.
Ariel Sharon became known to the Palestinians in the early 1970s when he was in charge of pacifying the rebellious Gazan refugee camps.
It reckons that all this would add only about 7% to total well costs—and might go a long way towards pacifying the environmentalists.A tale of two continentsGeologically, the chances of finding shale gas in Europe are every bit as good as in America.
The finance minister's move is clearly aimed at pacifying left-wingers in the ruling coalition, who have complained of reckless liberalisation.
Saddam Hussein would have disagreed, of course, but America holds itself to higher standards.Many people think that non-military means for pacifying Iraq are being neglected.
