Sentence examples for containing the war from inspiring English sources

His killing, less than a year after he took office, was a severe setback for the Kremlin's ambition of containing the war in Chechnya and convincing the world that stability in the Caucasus was at hand.

As forces commanded by Slobodan Milosevic, who is nominally Yugoslavia's president but really just Serbia's boss, continued to shell villages thought to be inhabited by separatist guerrillas, the talk in western capitals shifted from containing the war to stopping it.

Arianna weighed in on Bennett's view, pointing to the United States' struggles in containing the war on drugs.

There is no victor in Yemen either, no matter how much some might believe containing the war in Yemen is a victory.

Tentative peace talks begin again as the government struggles to contain the war.

Diplomatic efforts to end or contain the war went nowhere slowly.

America, vast and laid out from one ocean to another, is not a large enough space to contain the war each soldier brings home.

In a bid to make sense of the madness, the Onion website published a spoof memo from Gillette's CEO which contained the war cry: "If two blades is good and three is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed.

The churchyard contains the war graves of 16 British servicemen, 15 of World War I, and one of World War II.

The churchyard contains the war graves of five Commonwealth service personnel; two of World War I and three of World War II. A. N. Hornby (1847 192525) who played for Lancashire and England is buried here.

That greatest of presidential orations, remembered mainly for its magnanimous "with malice toward none," contained the war-battered president's profound puzzlement in "The Almighty has his own purposes".