Sentence examples for check the spread from inspiring English sources

Time is running out to check the spread, however, because the rains will begin in September.

Aggressive initiatives earlier this year had helped check the spread of polio.

The past few years have been discouraging ones for efforts to check the spread of nuclear weapons.

After that, crack begins to decline and there is a major campaign to check the spread of handguns among young people.

(Abbott Laboratories, which sold the disinfectant, encouraged people instead to visit the doctor regularly, as part of a national campaign "to check the spread of disease").

And most alarmingly for those trying to check the spread of cholera, which is found in feces and spread through water, the people sometimes defecate in it.

It would be a strange victory in which the price to be paid for checking the spread of cancer through the body is its uncontrolled spread through the culture.

But his dream of containing the Jewish state within its pre-1967 borders, and of checking the spread of its regional influence by an Arab-Israeli balance of power, was not realised.

Belarus's dictator has long mastered the art of carrying out a balancing act between a Europe that has rightly shunned him for years, and Putin's Russia, which keeps his economy afloat and is intent on checking the spread of democracy in the region.

While the Obama administration has ramped up the military campaign to oust al Qaeda from Afghanistan (and pound its sanctuaries in Pakistan), it has been less successful in checking the spread of the Islamist doctrine, which casts Muslims as victims of western oppression and disrespect.

In 2003, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiated Avahan: the India AIDS Initiative, a large-scale program aimed at checking the spread of HIV in India by focusing on key high-risk groups [ 16].