Sentence examples for checking the spread of from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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].
These measures were nonetheless 'lamentably inefficient in checking the spread of the disease.' Quite simply, isolating individuals and families or quarantining entire communities did not work" (6, 21, 22 ).
The past few years have been discouraging ones for efforts to check the spread of nuclear weapons.
He hopes the same could happen in the future with measures to avoid and check the spread of pandemics.
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.
(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").
