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Education was the means by which elites could pacify the people as a collective, rendering them governable through moral suasion.
Linn's book is a detailed operational history of military action to pacify and restore order to the islands.
This, it was believed, would pacify psychotic patients and relieve extreme neurotic symptoms.
There is no doubt that the kind of personnel required to invade a country and the kind needed to pacify a nation are two different breeds.
The government must realize that brute force alone will not pacify the restive region.
As a result, the authorities needed three more years to pacify the country.
It took about two centuries to pacify the province, and indeed not until after 1854 did the Miao fully acquiesce in their fate.
In the film starring Paul Hogan, the hero uses his skills to pacify an angry water buffalo standing in the way of his vehicle.
In fact I was considering becoming a sound recordist or getting a job in a bank to pacify my parents.
The new conversation must be about how to achieve stability, not how we can forcibly pacify the place.
Would you ever pacify angry clients by giving them extra hours at no charge?
Their verse has not the rushing speed that could pace that tempest, it has not the teeming life that would pacify the wood.
There was substantial concern and it took years to pacify and persuade people these weren't a risk.
She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her.
We need to pacify the population and win them to our side before any serious nation-building can take place.
What began as an attempt to pacify the peasantry soon broadened out into an attack on privileges in general.
David had to look away from the screen to pacify the faint nauseating feeling that was rising from his stomach.
You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.
Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
If you need to pacify one of these doshas, these aroma blends are a convenient and very pleasant way to balance your environment.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Thermidorian government also endeavoured to pacify the rebels of the west.
I wiped his eyes with his frock, told him he was all right and called Sancho to pacify him.
In the mythology generated by capitalism to pacify the masses, the myth of intellectual property stands out.
Thus did these two exhort them, and endeavor to pacify the rage they were in.
So Arnold hastened to try and pacify the anger that he had inadvertently roused.
I attempted to pacify her by an indefinite reply to her inquiries, but in vain.
I endeavoured to pacify him, by representing the danger, but ineffectually.
But, how, on this revocation of my appointment, shall I be able to pacify him?
These he dumped out and, to pacify the man, handed the paper to him with his own pencil.
Mr. parbuckle, he ordered me to pacify 'em, an' I was a-doin' the best I could.
But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.
Rena tried to pacify her young friend, but the attempt was not successful.
You drain me of money till I have got nothing to pacify her with, and she'll do as she threatens some day.
I endeavored to pacify the sealer, by an appeal to his philosophy.
Nothing can pacify him but Mrs. Allen's notice and a dole from her hand.
The tablet closes with the endeavor of Enkidu to pacify Gilgamesh.
The intendant of the province-ship came to noyon to pacify the chapter.
Meantime, Teta Elzbieta would go and beg, over in the Hyde Park district, and the children would bring home enough to pacify Aniele, and keep them all alive.
When I saw him I tried to pacify him and said, 'Ajax, will you not forget and forgive even in death, but must the judgement about that hateful armour still rankle with you?
Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort.
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