pacify

But the slaying of Arcos, who had vowed to pacify the region, was particularly grisly.

This is a man who has pacified a team who seemed to be at war with itself once.

“I have faith that very soon all this region is going to be pacified and brotherhood and concord will return,” he said during a recent visit to La Concordia to inaugurate a new bridge.

We are easier to marginalize and to pacify if we fold ourselves into such tiny boxes.

Apparently, the civilian pukes in Washington lacked the general’s gung-ho confidence that with just a little more door-kicking and pyrotechnics, Afghanistan would be pacified — something that hadn’t happened since the Mongol invasions.