pacification

Example Sentences

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Speaking in Madrid, Sanchez says the deployment could happen "once we can see how to advance this task of pacification."

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

“We have to move forward little by little until we achieve the pacification of the entire country,” says Senator Salagado.

From BBC • May 22, 2024

As American involvement in Vietnam deepened, he went to Saigon in 1965 to evaluate civilian pacification programs.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

The idea of introducing permanent police units within Rio’s favelas to shore up security and tackle drug trafficking echoes a prior initiative: police pacification units, or UPPs.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

Lieutenant Carroll said that we were going on another pacification mission the next day, then an hour later he came and told us that we weren’t.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers