Sentence examples for that pacification from inspiring English sources

Most residents were hopeful that pacification would bring an improvement in their lives.

American and South Vietnamese forces were supposed to be "pacifying" South Vietnam — that is, ridding rural areas of armed opposition to the government — and American officers consistently submitted reports saying that pacification was working.

Writing in The Huffington Post in August, Mr. Muggah argued that while "there are many serious shortcomings of the U.P.P. experiment," a "crisis of credibility is occurring at precisely the moment when evidence shows that pacification works".

Lake said that pacification had backfired by "focussing on programs at the expense of local politics": "The more we did with the programs, the more we were undercutting the credibility and even legitimacy of the Saigon government".

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".

But, recently, it's been ticking up again amid headlines that pacification has hit a wall.

But the source said that broader pacification will require more interventionist diplomacy to press other countries such as Rwanda and Uganda that contribute to the destabilisation to recognise that their security is intertwined with Congo's success.

But he said the creche now gets 70% of its energy from the panels, which means considerable savings on a power bill that – since pacification – has to be paid.

Public security authorities dispute their claims that police pacification units (UPPs) in Alemão and Rocinha, and increased operations in Maré (which has no UPP) have led to more violence.

It would take four often bloody years and another major assault, but when the Marines finally prepared to leave their sprawling base on the outskirts of the city in December, commanders expressed high hopes that the pacification of the insurgency would demonstrate that security gains would hold even as the American role was reduced.

Marco Antonio de Britto Lomanto, Embartur's director of products and destinations, adds that the pacification work in the favelas shows just how seriously Brazil takes its security preparations ahead of the World Cup.