Sentence examples for containment regime from inspiring English sources
He doesn't have nuclear material, and we'd likely have some notice of the breakdown of the containment regime".
Nor was continuation of the containment regime, using sanctions and bombing raids from Saudi bases, a sustainable alternative.
(I did take part in the Iraq debate, arguing that a strict containment regime backed by the threat of force was preferable to an invasion).
At the State Department, the focus was on tightening up the containment regime — so-called 'smart sanctions.' The National Security Council didn't seem to have much of an opinion at that point.
Second, any containment regime we can conceive in place of war will eventually unravel, because the outside world does not have the resolve to maintain it and because a dictator with oil has the market on his side.
Those who favor deterrence acknowledge that the containment regime that constrained Iraq during the 1990's has frayed beyond repair, but argue that Mr. Hussein can still be kept in check by American threats to respond to any new Iraqi aggression with force -- including nuclear bombardment, if necessary.
That means, on the one hand, that the United States has no interest in pressing the Indians into some kind of neo-containment regime directed at China and, on the other, that it will not retreat and abandon them to Chinese hegemony.
The Chilcot report quotes Blair as acknowledging that there were two distinct options within the Iraq Options Paper in March 2002: containment or regime change.
During the presidential- election campaign, Mr Bush complained that the Clinton administration was not serious about its stated policy of "containment plus regime change".
British policies of "containment" toward the regime have resulted in the past 10 years in the loss of many more lives.
If Mr. Kim chooses not to make unilateral efforts at resolving international concerns about his nuclear weapons programs, then the only alternative is isolation and containment of the regime.
