Sentence examples for by containment from inspiring English sources
Would the Monument Fire, a growing blaze in southern Arizona, be held back by containment lines or surge past them?
The surveillance techniques offered by closed circuit television, sophisticated long-distance filming, computerised identification and improved riot gear, mean that the old street battles are less common and have been replaced by containment.
Just ahead of us, dead in the waters of Outside Bay, was the Exxon Valdez, tended by tugboats and surrounded by containment booms to prevent more oil from spreading.
Nearly five million barrels of oil have gushed from BP's well — and about 800,000 have been captured by containment efforts —since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, according to the latest data.
America could hammer Iran, but having brought American forces home from Iraq and Afghanistan this is the last thing that Mr Obama wants for his war-weary, financially drained country.Anthony Cordesman, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC says that one choice is containment and the other military strikes followed by containment.
In every round, robots compute a sequence of trees ordered by containment.
Components are represented by rectangles, and the decomposition relationship between components is represented by the containment relationship between rectangles.
The Chernobyl reactor, which caught fire after electrical tests resulted in a series of explosions, was not surrounded by a containment structure, as the Japanese reactors are.
Some experts have said the amount could be very high and that the leak could have been made far worse by the containment effort.
The firmest number in the report is that 17 percent of the oil emerging from the wellhead was captured by various containment devices.
If these months can be successfully navigated, then the more promising policy option of broad-ranging direct US diplomatic engagement with Iran, backed by smarter containment, might finally be tried.
