pacification

How To Use pacification In A Sentence

• An aortogram shows opacification of pulmonary arteries, veins and right atrium as well as the aorta.
• As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
• But the news of the governor-general's arrival struck them with consternation, and vakeels were sent to Agra, to learn on what terms a pacification might yet be effected. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
• Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Politics and the English Language
• We reviewed the effort on designing lens on posterior capsule opacification.
• Nevertheless, the US contribution to the pacification and democratisation of Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Pacific Rim, shows what can be done when local determination is succoured by superpower resources.
• Combined with what the late Ernest Mandel called "extra-economic" factors (such as pliant labor leadership and peaceful trade unionism, establishment of the Bretton Woods international monetary system, Cold War ideology and the suppression or pacification of any possible dissent, and relative decline in the price of oil and other raw materials in the immediate post-WW II period), the New Deal and other government-sponsored reforms ushered in a period of rapid economic expansion that came to be known as the "golden years of US capitalism," which lasted until around 1970. CounterPunch
• a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
• Pacification was the CIA's reader-friendly word for its extermination of civilian opposition to the US war machine in South Vietnam.
• In addition to current scholarship by the historian David Elliot on the war from the Vietnamese perspective, see his 1968 RAND study, coauthored with W. A. Stewart, “Pacification and the Viet Cong System in Dinh Tuong, 1966–1967.” Between War and Peace