In reaction, the loyal and rebel provinces united to expel the foreign troops under the Pacification of Ghent.
It took place during the reconquest by the armies of Philip II of Spain of the Burgundian Netherlands, whose different provinces had united in 1576 under the Pacification of Ghent to drive out the foreign troops out and to grant religious liberty to Protestants.
Xinjiang and Tibet (and Inner Mongolia) are still China's colonies, their pacification under the Communist Party a continued imperial project.
Conscious it needs to smarten its image as soon-to-be host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio is stepping up its war on the heavily armed favela drug gangs, with police permanently occupying places like Rocinha under a new "pacification" programme.
Meanwhile, the pacification of the mountains under an autonomous government guaranteed by the Great Powers (1861 1914) stabilized the relationship between the town and its hinterland.
We march to Vietnam under such bannerets as "escalate "Delofiate," "pacification," "counterforce concept," "controlled responses," "damage-limitation forces," "benevolent incapacitators," and "targeting lists".
Under the dramatic first stage of pacification, armed police units [Pacifying Police Units] - backed by soldiers and marines - have been going into Rio's favelas since 2008 to drive out the criminal gangs, and establish the first permanent police presences in what had often been no-go areas for security officials.
The new dynasty still had to face the various local rebels and warlords that had sprung up throughput the Chinese Empire, but by 628,with a judicious mixture of force and clemency, the Tang had succeeded in the pacification and consolidation of China under their rule.
In the 1970s, forces under Sharon's command had engaged in the "pacification" of the resistance in Gaza, killing Palestinians and destroying homes.
When the U.S. instituted a civilian colonial authority over the Philippines, Mindanao was put under military rule and subjected to a campaign of pacification which resulted in many thousands of deaths.
