pacification
noun
pac·i·fi·ca·tion
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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, "The Allies who liberated Paris, and the Nazi who saved it," 22 Aug. 2019 He was hired by Komer a decade later, when the former Vietnam War pacification chief was undersecretary of defense for policy. — Washington Post, "The story must be told.," 12 May 2018 From that moment of pacification on, Bobby and Chuck’s storylines barely intersected. — refinery29.com, "Billions Season 3 Finale Recap: "The Death Zone"," 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, "How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons," 9 Apr. 2018 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, "A once-trendy Rio slum is now ‘at war’," 5 Jan. 2018 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, "It’s All Downhill in Chechnya, This Time at a Ski Resort," 31 Jan. 2018 The vision of ski resorts as pacification tools sprang from preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, "It’s All Downhill in Chechnya, This Time at a Ski Resort," 31 Jan. 2018 Ordinarily, police drives against prostitution are about as effective as pacification programs in Vietnam. — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, "Wide Open City/Part 1: The New Breed," 8 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pacification.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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