pacification
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Pacification wasn’t working, and casualties — American and Vietnamese — were mounting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023
"The whole country became something of a prison," says Prof Hughes, author of Britain's Pacification of Palestine.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2022
"Pacification" may now be softening dividing lines between communities in the favelas.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2012
Mr. Kony’s relocation to Congo followed many failed attempts to uproot him, including Operation Iron Fist and the establishment of the Ministry for the Pacification of the North.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2012
Browning says that there was no sort of historical foundation for the story, but the Pacification of Ghent in 1576 has been suggested as an appropriate background.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
Vocabulary lists containing pacification
"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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