They were paid an extraordinary amount of money to go over and pacify the country.

But they have not managed to pacify the country.

Its Sheikhs fought; his Imperial Highness sent troops to turn the balance of the fray, and to pacify the country.

Lopez Obrador took office last December pledging to pacify the country after more than a decade of runaway gang violence.

The new clerical cabinet, as usual, promised to pacify the country, and to find the funds indispensable for the purpose.

The chaos marked a major security setback for Lopez Obrador, who has pledged to pacify the country after years of drug-war violence.

They are more concerned with business now than ideology, but could still cause problems as the government tries to pacify the country.

Many of the attacks on him focused on a proposal he floated to explore an amnesty for criminals to pacify the country.

I go for the country; not for this resolution or that resolution, but any resolution, any proposition, that will pacify the country.

At this stage Fountain was appointed by the Governor "Colonel of State Militia," and given a free hand to pacify the country.

Colvile with the Highland Brigade had come up from Ventersburg with instructions to move onward to Heilbron, pacifying the country as he passed.

Hoche had been placed in charge of Western France some months before this, and by judicious measures had fairly succeeded in pacifying the country.

IRAQ: Rebels killed 12 members of an Iraqi security force entrusted with pacifying the country's most restive town, Falluja, officers in the force said yesterday.