• Another pacifying force has been commerce, a game in which everybody can win.

    WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

  • The most obvious of these pacifying forces has been the state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

    WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

  • 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.

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  • 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.

    WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Albania

  • Critics of the UPP (Pacifying Police Unit) in Rio de Janeiro are quick to question how community organization and development projects will take shape in the years leading up to the World Cup and Olympics.

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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.

    NPR: Retired Army Generals Criticize Bush's Iraq Plan

  • 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.

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  • 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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