populace

Converse of object

• educate: Japan sought to educate its colonial subjects for the purpose of improving productivity and not for cultivating a highly educated populace.
• keep: Keep the populace amused, stop them having any doubts about society or asking awkward questions about what life is about.
• control: Did the gentry really seek ( or need to seek or feel the need to seek ) to control the populace territorially?
• encourage: The TF began putting out information that encouraged the populace to air their grievances in a more peaceful manner.
• terrorize: Robber barons became a law unto themselves and built unlicensed castles from which they terrorized the populace and against them Stephen was largely ineffectual.
• give: Later, the true purpose of the event becomes clear to give the populace full license to have a raucous good time.

Converse of subject

surround: We were uncovering this thing, as it had fallen, surrounded by the French populace in this sleepy little village.

Preposition: into

submission: ASBOs and summary justice are not mechanisms by which one fosters respect in society but a means of cowing the populace into submission.

Adjective modifier

• civilian: And on the American side, they would be among our civilian populace.
• general: Finally, are they a pest to the general populace?
• entire: We all know the majority of the people are not crazy, but the entire populace of Germany wasn't nuts, were they?
• local: Norwich is a fine city with a friendly local populace who go out of their way to be friendly to students.
• rural: There also exist barriers that prevent the rural populace from accessing pediatric eye care services.
• British: Unable to wait politely in silence any longer, one section of the British populace is set to take matters into its own hands.

Noun used with modifier

city: A division of legionaries raised chiefly from the city populace soon followed the example thus given.

Possessives

nation: Units made entirely from the controlling nation's populace are therefore exceptional, and usually trained to elite level.

Preposition: in

• general: These events were very popular with not only company employees but the local populace in general.
• check: Over them all the factor ruled, and he kept the local populace in check by threatening to remove them from the venison list.
• state: The lurid headlines in lesser organs are clearly part of the plan to keep the populace in a state of fear.

Preposition: of

world: This will never be accomplished until the populace of the world believes that it is necessary to do so.