Sentence examples for attempt to contain from inspiring English sources

Every attempt to contain Hamas has had the opposite effect.

Kafka scholars are making no attempt to contain their excitement.

Our devotion to the First Amendment makes any attempt to contain media violence very tricky.

This trade pact is not an attempt to contain China or stunt its growth.

In an attempt to contain the fallout, Christie said in his statement released at 5pm on Wednesday: What I've seen today for the first time is unacceptable.

But it needs to be seen in the context of the broader attempt to contain the fallout from the financial crisis.

When she became secretary of state, she advocated the pivot to Asia, which is seen by the Chinese government and public as an attempt to contain China.

In an attempt to contain the damage, Paulson and Bernanke presided over what many considered the greatest government intrusion into markets and finance since the nineteen-thirties.

"Today is day 241," Ezekwesili counters, speaking slowly in an attempt to contain her obvious anger, "and the girls are still not back.

In an attempt to contain inflation, Australia's central bank raised interest rates, counter to the trend among many of its counterparts.

In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has mobilized the army to bury a half-million slaughtered sheep in a desperate attempt to contain foot-and-mouth disease.