Sentence examples for contained for a while from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

and contained them there 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.

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.

A simple clampdown on expenditure the usual strategy contains cost pressures for a while, but they usually resurface as the public clamours for more money to remedy the shortcomings caused by the restraint.