| Education was the means by which elites could pacify the people as a collective, rendering them governable through moral suasion. |
| The new conversation must be about how to achieve stability, not how we can forcibly pacify the place. |
| In fact I was considering becoming a sound recordist or getting a job in a bank to pacify my parents. |
| She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her. |
| This, it was believed, would pacify psychotic patients and relieve extreme neurotic symptoms. |
| It took about two centuries to pacify the province, and indeed not until after 1854 did the Miao fully acquiesce in their fate. |
