Sentence examples for contain for a while from inspiring English sources

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The main destabilizing force was the stream into the country of European prospectors and concession hunters, which the Swazi were able to contain for a while but which became a flood after the kingship passed to Mbandzeni in 1875.

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Their methods were contrasting; Vijay, if contained for a while, was prepared to hit the ball in the air against the spinners then to pop back into his shell for a while before delivering another little aerial assault.

When Dempsey was asked whether he thought that ISIS could ever be defeated without being dealt with in Syria, he said no, though it could be "contained" for a while.

The most obvious example of this is the extensive use of kettling to obtain intelligence, during which young children were contained for hours while being photographed by police intelligence teams.

That exposed him to the charge, rapidly made by the conservative opposition, of hanging on to unethical subordinates.Mr Lagos's strategy may have contained the crisis for a while.

Stipple has actually been serving these product dots (the overlay used to show an area of the picture contains more information) for a while now — enough for over 10 million data points.

and contained them there for a while.

Conclusions indicate that LLE gives better recoveries for highly polar, non-polar, and some polyphenols suspected to contain a nitrogen atom, while for the others the two methods seem to be equally suitable.

For a while, movie collections contained both tapes and discs, but as DVD continued to dominate, fewer and fewer households replaced their VHS players.

At its conception, while serving as Attorney General, Robert Kennedy speculated that some of the interviews, such as ones relating to the Cuban missile crisis might have to be sealed for a while, due to containing "highly classified material".

Composite-interval mapping (CIM) tests whether an interval between two markers contains a QTL while simultaneously controlling for the effect of proximal QTLs located outside the interval.

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