Sentence examples for quell conflict from inspiring English sources

The rationale behind the outgoing government was that it was a broad church that helped quell conflict in the regions.

The current president Goodluck Jonathan has attempted to quell conflict in the Delta, offering militants cash payments, jobs and college places in return for laying down weapons.

A 2009 amnesty program for militants in Nigeria's oil-drenched Niger Delta mostly succeeded in quelling conflict there.

Their stories are likely to serve as a grim reminder to the Bush administration, for whom peace in Sudan has emerged as a major foreign policy priority, that the job of quelling conflict in Africa's largest country may be far from finished.

At the news conference on Sunday, Mr. Li said that China had sent 2,044 peacekeepers to 12 trouble spots around the world last year, reflecting a bigger role by China in quelling conflicts.

Thus, nationalism is invoked in conscience to quell tribal conflict and the notion of a Brotherhood of Man is invoked to quell national conflicts.

To quell the conflict and preserve unity, Pilgrim leaders (among them William Bradford and William Brewster) drafted the Mayflower Compact before going ashore.

At the same time, Kerry knows that doing nothing to quell the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians may not be shrewd.

No reason for the change was announced, but the Kremlin appears to have grown disenchanted with Mr. Zyazikov's inability to quell the conflict.

NEWS China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, is expected to meet with top officials of the European Union on Thursday amid rising trade tensions and diverging views on how to quell the conflict in Syria.

BRUSSELS — China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, is expected to meet with top officials of the European Union on Thursday amid rising trade tensions and diverging views on how to quell the conflict in Syria.