The phrase "contain without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to indicate something that is inside or held within something else, without being physically confined or restricted by it. Example: The new design of the water bottle is made to contain without limiting the flow of liquid, making it easier to drink from while on the go.
The turmoil added to worries that the Greek crisis would prove difficult to contain without more robust action from Germany and, ultimately, its taxpayers.
If circulated for the purpose of undermining military discipline, scurrilous articles, attacking an ally, a minority of our citizens and the President, may contain, without words of solicitation, indications of purpose sufficient, if accepted as true, from which to draw an intent to accomplish the unlawful results.
Miraculously those were contained without further spread.
It assumes that the threats from future failed states, such as Afghanistan, can be contained without expeditionary forces.
By now, though, the violence has probably spread too far to be contained without more muscular intervention.
But this book contains, without any forced didacticism, a powerful lesson about greed, responsibility and regret.
Then there is the wider question of whether a limited war could be contained without bringing in other actors.
He called the piece "disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team" and labelled the allegations it contained — without being specific — "categorically false".
All of us are assured that the cost of Medicare can be contained without the program's beneficiaries' feeling a significant impact.
Boeing, based in Chicago, has said repeatedly that any problems with the batteries can be contained without threatening the planes and their passengers.
He was concerned to recognize and increase the power of the ordinary Athenian thēte and hoplite, while containing without destroying the privileges of the aristocratic "cream".
