pacification

pacify | American Dictionary

pacify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpæs·əˌfɑɪ/
to cause someone who is angry or upset to be calm and satisfied:
The governor later apologized, but union members weren’t pacified.
To pacify a place is to bring peace there or end a war:
The US plans to send troops to pacify the country.

Examples of pacify

pacify
He claimed that trade reduces the incentives for conflict, and this pacifying effect of trade would diminish rapidly with a larger number of countries.
The offering might be accepted, pacifying the deity, or rejected as insufficient or of the wrong kind, angering the deity.
Institutions and policies probably do sometimes change when leaders of conflicting classes reassess the costs of conflict and accept pacifying compromises of lesser cost.
If he pacifies him skilfully enough, he might even make another sale on his colleague's behalf.
Recent evidence, in fact, suggests that the pacifying affect of democracy may be conditional on the level of development.
Thus, we are able to demonstrate that the pacifying effect of democracy in combination with development extends to rival states, the most conflict prone dyads in the international system.
Second, bioethics is often regarded as a specific technology itself, aimed at resolving or at least "pacifying" the moral consequences of the use of medical technologies.
You have anyhow to pacify them, and should employ subterfuges.
How does one assess a case where the emperor acts by seeking to restrain the military or pacify domestic opponents?
Secondly, the worldwide proliferation of regionalism also cannot be explained by liberal assumptions that free trade enhance the interdependence and finally pacify the inter-state relationship.
What he does not do is try to pacify the victim, to make war acceptable.
We also did not believe our descriptions of mice freely climbing about the underside of water filled cages, would pacify the skeptics either.
Liberal democracy, private life, civil rights and interest groups are all simply ideological constructs designed to pacify and mislead.
Also, this form of poverty control and management is most susceptible to applications intended to pacify potentially disorderly groups.
The conservatives had no real control over him, they simply had to pacify him.
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