How to Use pacification in a Sentence

pacification

noun

• Children played at the pacification centers set up to keep them amused while the parent did some business.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• The streets were far safer, thanks in part to the city’s pacification police program, which sought to drive out the drug traffickers who had propelled murder rates to deadly highs in the 1990s and were still ubiquitous.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• In advance of the 2014 World Cup and now the Olympics, the police and the military pushed at the point of semiautomatic rifles and armored cars into hundreds of favelas in brutal pacification campaigns.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
• But Russia has a longer-term strategy: putting winter sports to use as a tool for economic development and pacification in a decades-old conflict in the Caucasus.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• He was hired by Komer a decade later, when the former Vietnam War pacification chief was undersecretary of defense for policy.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• Adding to the problems is the erosion of a pacification program launched several years ago that aimed at building connections between officers and residents.
  — Peter Prengaman, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2017
• British and American leaders feared civil insurrection in Paris and wanted to avoid the risks of pacification, possibly by force, and then feeding and running a city of 4 million, all delaying the assault on Germany itself.
  — Jean Edward Smith, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• With Brazil suffering from a severe recession, some studies suggest 2016 was Rio’s most violent year in decades despite a police pacification program that was meant to curb slum violence.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• As part of the same process of pacification, Japanese intelligence was shrunk, divided into squabbling units and focused narrowly on communists at home and trade secrets abroad.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• From that moment of pacification on, Bobby and Chuck’s storylines barely intersected.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• Ironically, tear gas has continued to be used as a weapon of pacification domestically; law enforcement from local police officers to the National Guard have continued to use tear gas to quell riots and prevent property damage.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• Your upbringing by your superiors was pacification, not discipline, which resulted in a lack of accountability.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• After a tumultuous half century of revolts and pacification, the emperor Augustus granted Vienne the status of colonia and its inhabitants citizenship.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• As inflation soared, Mr. Khiem invoked economic austerity measures and greater pacification efforts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Ordinarily, police drives against prostitution are about as effective as pacification programs in Vietnam.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• Black snipers, in particular, fulfilled political fantasies that demonized all forms of Black resistance as pathological and deserving of violent pacification.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• As governor, Sandoval entrusted Nayarit’s pacification to his acting attorney general, Edgar Veytia.
  — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024