Peace through the metaphor of war from police pacification to governance transformation in Rio de Janeiro by Tierney, Julia

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The Viceroyalty of Lord Reading, 1921-1926: with particular reference to the political and constitutional progress of India by Turnbull, Christine Hazel

“…In order to restore political stability it was essential for Reading to pacify this opposition, and the degree of success he achieved will be investigated. …”
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The Bon sman sgrub ritual by Sehnalova, A

“…</p> <p>The axis of the thesis is the specific "material core of the ritual", the so called medicine (sman) or mendrub medicine (sman sgrub kyi sman), its preparation, the processes it undergoes in the course of the ritual as well as approaches to understanding it and the ritual as a whole: The generated empowered medicine as a miraculous substance represents a universal remedy and the ritual performance pacifies the universe. On the highest spiritual level, both work solely as a symbolic support on one’s path towards enlightenment.…”

The hindrances to the US pacification advisory effort in the Vietnam War from the perspective of the advisors by Pulliam, W

“…<p>During the Vietnam War, an American advisory effort supported the South Vietnamese as they attempted to pacify the countryside. The subject of this thesis is that advisory effort. …”

Ideology and war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-95 by Jungic, O

“…The final section reveals how in 1994-95, leaders from Croatia and Serbia shifted their short term strategies towards Bosnia for pragmatic reasons, and while the Croatian leadership succeeded in forcing Bosnian Croat nationalists to abate their separatist campaign, Miloševi&amp;cacute;'s efforts to pacify the Bosnian Serb leadership failed and Radovan Karad&amp;zcaron;i&amp;cacute;'s regime continued to pursue its state-building programme until its defeat in summer 1995. …”

The aesthetics of videogame music by Sweeney, MR

“…While the fear that the majority of videogames 'pacify' their audience in an Adornian "culture industry" is not without justification, its reductionism can be countered by a recognition of the diversity and aesthetic potential of the medium. …”

Aristocracy, politics and power in Byzantium, 1025-1081 by Nilsson, J

“…It also challenges the idea that the political dynamic of the eleventh century was centred around the power struggles of ‘great families’ or clans that effectively functioned as political parties, as well as the idea that the emperors and their officials were apathetic about governing the provinces beyond what was necessary to pacify and extract resources from them. Taken together, the evidence examined consequently appears to suggest that, by the standards of the pre-modern world, the Byzantine empire had a reasonably well-functioning state and a fairly coherent society during the period in question, suggesting that the focus of the scholarly debate on the eleventh-century Byzantine collapse should, to some extent, be shifted from internal to external factors.…”

The Roman army in Syria, Judaea and Arabia by Gracey, MH

“…In the first two chapters I discuss the evidence for the units in garrison in Syria and trace their changing role as Syria was pacified and Roman power expanded eastwards, gradually but relentlessly until the mid-third century, recovering under Diocletian but relapsing into a defensive posture by c. …”

Landing Security: Risk, Endogeneity, and the Archives of Colonialized Planning in Morocco by Elgamal, Asmaa

“…“Landing Security” thus refers to land not as an object or a noun, but as a verb capable of transforming relationships and pacifying the violence of state-building and development. …”
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In-situ TEM study of carbon nanomaterials and thermoelectric nanomaterials by Jia, Xiaoting

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Investigation of ternary sulfides for hydrogen evolution reaction in an electrolysis cell or photoelectrolysis cell by Chen, Yang

“…Compared with MoSx and NiMoSx, CoMoSx layer on illuminated Si surface acts not just as a very effective catalyst accelerating the H2 generation, but also as a very effective pacifying agent which accelerates photoelectrons’ injection and transfer.…”
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