In the end, however, the damage was largely contained to a suspension of military exchanges that lasted nearly a year.
The virulent Hindu-Muslim violence that broke out six weeks ago has been largely contained to the western state of Gujarat.
The explosion occurred Tuesday night, and on Wednesday afternoon crews were still fighting the fire, which was largely contained to the rig but in photographs provided by the Coast Guard appeared to be shooting enormous plumes of flame into the air.
For two weeks, the tone of health care officials and the local news media had been increasingly upbeat, stressing that the disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, was largely contained to a fixed number of people linked to a single chain of exposures beginning at one hospital.
Do not send the man who declared, back in April 2007, that the housing correction had reached bottom and that the subprime problem was "largely contained" to all the Sunday talk shows to declare that "our financial institutions, our banks and investments banks are very strong".
But that attention is interrupted all the time by people, events, things, desires, boredom, weather, etc. and that process of interruption is, largely, contained to physical space because that is a natural gate on access.
The fire was largely contained to the first-floor apartment.
By localizing variations to the CDS or UTR of FL-assembly based gene structures, we found the RI isoform to be largely contained in the coding sequence (Table 5), often leading to the inclusion of an in-frame PTC.
Although the downturn appears to be largely contained in the housing market, Bernanke said the "slowing pace of residential construction is likely to be a drag on economic growth into next year".
