pacifications

The war now being waged in Afghanistan by the U.S. and NATO closely resembles 19th century colonial "pacifications" in which a puppet ruler is installed, a native mercenary army ( "sepoys") hired to fight, and western troops sent to crush rebellious tribesmen who refuse to follow the diktat of the imperial power.

Eric Margolis: Let's Speak the Truth About Afghanistan 2008

The Nazis carried out "pacifications" in which innocent people were mercilessly killed; and you carry out "defensive operations" during which you wreak death and havoc on innocent people.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

More cruisers, more pacifications, had followed, and followed fruitlessly.

THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

Instead, Europe got a full-scale war against Afghanistan's Pashtun tribes raising uneasy memories of its 19th-century colonial "pacifications."

Eric Margolis: A Death of a Thousand Cuts in Afghanistan Eric Margolis 2010

Surge promoters (enterJohn McCain!) claim that political reconciliation will still take time and that the local pacifications due to the additional U.S. fighting forces have provided a breathing space and set the stage for the eventual reconciliations.

Has the 'Surge" Prevented Peace? 2008

The discriminating awareness of the second aspect of true stoppings – true stoppings are pacifications of disturbing emotions and attitudes – eliminates this mistaken view.

The Sixteen Aspects and Sixteen Distorted Ways of Embracing the Four Noble Truths 2006

On Saturday he drove over to Hintock, and assured her with mysterious pacifications that in a day or two she might expect to receive some assuring news.

The Woodlanders 2006

True stoppings are pacifications in the sense that, because the mental continuums on which they occur are totally rid forever of a portion of true sufferings and true origins, they are states of everlasting peace.

The Sixteen Aspects and Sixteen Distorted Ways of Embracing the Four Noble Truths 2006

Unspecified phenomena that are states of pacifications (nye-bar zhi-bas lung ma-bstan) – the disturbing states of mind of the realm of ethereal forms and the formless realm, since they occur on the mental continuums of those who have a stilled and settled state of shamata (zhi-gnas; mental quiescence) which overrides and thus blocks the manifestation of the disturbing emotions and states of mind of the realm of desirable forms.

Constructive, Destructive, and Unspecified Phenomena 2005

The constructive phenomena classified according to the occasion in which they occur and which are affected phenomena gained by relying on the phenomena constructive through their being pacifications are:

Constructive, Destructive, and Unspecified Phenomena 2005