Yesterday's sudden rate cut by the US Federal Reserve pacified investors in Asia, at least for now.
At that, pound bulls seemed pacified that the odds were at least even between tighter policy and looser policy.
Where Lord Strathclyde pacified a troublesome Lords with jovial good humour, Lord Hill will instead use softly spoken reason.
All of these once severely troubled companies pacified investors with rewarding dividends until, of course, their stocks collapsed and dividend payments were terminated.
Even Al-Anbar, once the Iraqi equivalent of the American "Wild West", has been pacified enough to be given over to the Iraqi government.
However, he says the main concern is the drugs gangs have simply been relocating to favelas yet to the pacified, or to towns just outside of Rio.
Now, that's a province that was among the most violent in Iraq, and now it's largely pacified and earlier this week was turned over to Iraqi government control.
Since 2008 more than 30 favelas in Rio have been "pacified" in the government campaign to improve public security before it hosts the world's two biggest sporting events.
The furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition compounded by a slew of new products.
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Rather than offering anything much in the way of innovation, he pacified the influences of Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro into a beaming, exceptionally lucid style of playing.
But the report has inflamed critics rather than pacified them.
The setting is Hanmouth, a fictional location in Southwest England, where along the outskirts of town exist a population of violent, work-shy, welfare-dependent scroungers pacified only by soap operas.
Now, one might think that transit authorities would be all for keeping customers happy and pacified, but apparently that's not the case with Massport, the governing body at Logan.
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Long after the Pacified Rio Cup is over, it will leave legacies for the communities such as the renovation of the playing fields and the opening of soccer schools in the favelas.
In September 2011, the pacified Cidade de Deus favela, widely known for the movie that bears its name, became the first neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro with a community bank.
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His success tour company Favela Adventures and blog Life in Rocinha has seen him called in to consult on tourism projects in other favelas, including the recently police pacified Prazeres.
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Just like Eduardo Paes wants to capitalize with the Olympics games to leave a legacy and revolutionize Rio de Janeiro, I believe the Pacified Rio Cup has the potential to leave long lasting improvements in the communities.
France has dealt sensibly with its nastiest would-be separatist danger: Napoleon's native isle of Corsica, some fifth of whose people are nationalists of one kind or another, has been pacified with a mixture of subsidy and devolution.
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