Sentence examples for attempting to contain from inspiring English sources

A friendly website is attempting to contain the wilder excesses of rumours.

'Joint top are we?' said Phil Brown, attempting to contain his smile.

He developed a theory, geometrodynamics, attempting to contain physical phenomena in the geometry of curved space-time, but the discovery of exceptions proved it false.

For months, Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., has been in crisis mode, furiously attempting to contain the damage stemming from its role in last year's presidential campaign.

Attempting to contain Iniesta's brilliant passing and movement on Spain's left flank, France pushed its lines high and moved right back Mathieu Debuchy into midfield.

Better funded, better trained and far more heavily armed than the police officers attempting to contain them, they now more closely resemble Colombia's Farc rebels than any conventional street gang.

At the same time, it attempts to contain hospital and other medical costs.

Many cities attempted to contain the heightened debate, rapidly appointing commissions tasked with evaluating their local monuments.

Government activity has attempted to contain this problem by constraining retail decentralization and promoting redevelopment in the traditional centres.

Thousands of fans had to wait to leave the stadium as mounted police attempted to contain protesters, local reports said.

The Rev. J. J. Hayab, the church's pastor and state secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, attempts to contain his rage at the attackers.