pacification

Example Sentences

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In Kimel’s conclusion, “If not for Selznick’s choices to err on the side of white pacification, he could have altered the course of one of the most celebrated — and disgraced — movies ever made.”

From Seattle Times

While other agents and environmental officials expressed similar fears, Agostinho said he did not expect rising violence but rather a "pacification" of criminal elements.

From Reuters

“We have gone through several periods — slavery, emancipation, underpaid and overworked, pacification, integration, trying to prove something instead of dwelling in our own household,” she told The Progress-Bulletin of Pomona, Calif., in early 1972.

From New York Times

But the outcome of those struggles was the pacification of the frontier and the advance of a less violent, more benevolent civilization.

From New York Times

Conservative President Guillermo Lasso has promised to reduce prison violence through a gang pacification process, early release for prisoners and political and social reforms.

From Reuters