His scientists grew cholera cultures, and made huge quantities of narcotics, including ecstasy, intended for use in pacifying demonstrators.
Another pacifying force has been commerce, a game in which everybody can win.
The most obvious of these pacifying forces has been the state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
The finance minister's move is clearly aimed at pacifying left-wingers in the ruling coalition, who have complained of reckless liberalisation.
He pointed to success in pacifying an insurgent stronghold in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border.
The mutineers were for several years involved in a government-backed military campaign called "Amani Leo", aimed at pacifying the turbulent region.
Even the police, one of the most brutal forces in the world, are starting to win praise for pacifying bandit-ridden slums.
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Pacifying the rest of the country would have resulted in unthinkable casualties.
He set to pacifying advertisers, then simplified an organization that had grown pell-mell, skinnying Yahoo from 46 to 6 divisions and shedding some 500 employees.
They've established a rage-free Green Zone all parallels to the real world fully intended but they'll soon discover that pacifying the country is more difficult than they imagined.
We see evidence of the pacifying effects of government in the way that rates of killing declined following the expansion and consolidation of states in tribal societies and in medieval Europe.
Now Mr Ceka is embarking on the much tougher task of pacifying Albania's southern towns, where the anarchy unleashed by the collapse of pyramid investment schemes turned into rule by criminals.
But one thing, I think, is apparent at this juncture is that whatever progress the United States has made toward our dream of democratizing and pacifying this region is as fragile as ever.
It could also prove to be a powerful deterrent for future would-be criminals and have a pacifying effect across the whole region a goal that is in the best interest of the United States.
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Still, Keane said by starting out pacifying mixed Sunni-Shi'a neighborhoods, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki could build up enough trust to use political rather than military means to deal with the notorious militias of Sadr City.
The move is a something of a departure for Wal-Mart, whose concentration over the past year or so has mostly been aimed at pacifying critics who decry the company's alleged shabby treatment of its hourly workers.
Pacifying the critics is indeed important, say analysts, not because their anti-Wal-Mart campaigns affect the shopping decisions of the company's core rural customers (they don't), but because these critics have the ear of liberal politicians who dominate urban legislatures.
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