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These threats cannot be ignored or pacified in the same way as a gunboat firing at a fishing boat.

The masses tend to be pacified when their basic needs are met and the unspoken social contract is upheld.

They could easily be pacified (for example, by giving them a supercomputer contract in the US).

They are not a recipe for a good life unless you are pacified by trite platitudes.

And that demographic has been effectively pacified by the fantastic urban growth China has experienced over the last two decades.

Maybe it's time to actually exercise our right to assemble and not be pacified by the presence of a petition website.

It is highly unlikely that the current military action will result in a pacified Iran.

When I visited a pacified favela, the police unit walls were lined (50+) with large bullet holes.

The intellectuals are pacified by their McMansions and $150,000 student debt.

Interestingly, it seems as if a lot of my fellow Canadians are pacified by this line of thinking, perhaps not realizing that they're fair game.

People are only to be pacified to avoid mass movements.

I'm of the unfortunate opinion that Americans are too pacified and complacent to actually step up and do anything against the government.

Grooveshark PR clearly thought that by rolling out a "one of us" developer to make a "shucks, it sucks, but what choice did we have?" type statement, the wider dev community would be pacified and wouldn't keep asking the hard questions.