Sentence examples for could have contained from inspiring English sources

For someone with her particular aspirations, only the HVAC industry could have contained greater indignities.

"In the early days, the belief was that we probably could have contained it offshore," Mr. Suttles said.

The bacteria that cause anthrax are endemic in Afghanistan, and the meal could have contained dry anthrax spores.

Allford said the gloves could have contained a power source allowing the terrorists to send an electrical charge down a wire connected to their holdalls.

Although the team said it had found several boxes that could have contained the ancient book, all of them were empty.

The Central Bank has been criticized for inaction: it could have contained the size of the banks by pushing for a raise in minimum-reserve requirements.

If the Rangers could only have contained Kovalev, instead, they would be in seventh place this morning instead of ninth.

Mr. Parr, Mr. Herlihy and Mr. Cohen said they believed the creation of a Troubled Asset Relief Program was necessary, with the crisis having ballooned to a point at which private solutions alone could not have contained the damage.

But their conclusion after five weeks of evidence could not have contained a more severe indictment: Tomlinson, a vulnerable father of nine, was unlawfully killed by a police officer.

The locally made cement, he suspects, could have some imported chemicals, for example, and the recycled glass from Yellowstone National Park that he laid down as a base layer under the garage could well have contained an imported beer bottle or two.

Mr. Lane's triumph is that through the specificity of his comic moves and the force of his charisma, he suggests how a certain retrograde kind of caricature that now looks so ugly could once have contained moments of beauty.