Sentence examples for deployed to contain from inspiring English sources

An estimated 5,000 police were deployed to contain the rioters.

If the crowds get even angrier, are American troops going to be deployed to contain them?

The appeal court overturned a previous ruling by the high court on the controversial technique deployed to contain demonstrators during the climate camp sit-in.

He added that some 40% of the fuel thought to have leaked had been cleared and booms had been deployed to contain the slick.

A total of 800 officers were deployed to contain the supporters, Boucault said, but they took several hours to bring a situation under control that included the smashing of store and car windows near the Champs Elysees.

However this unfolding disaster ends and with all the respect I feel for the human effort deployed to contain it its significance is not the least bit ambiguous: Japanese history has entered a new phase, and once again we must look at things through the eyes of the victims of nuclear power, of the men and the women who have proved their courage through suffering.

Several fire crews were deployed to try to contain a bushfire at Hervey Range, north of Townsville, by backburning.

Since first taking the Kremlin helm in 2000, Putin has engineered the diversion of local tax revenue to Moscow, limited local authority to choose candidates for regional governorships and deployed troops to contain rebellious regions such as Chechnya.

The battery deployed to Črna Luka contained 76 mm M1942 (ZiS-3) guns.

And our government, when well-run, can marshal extraordinary capabilities at all levels to rescue people from storm surges, to offer help to farmers whose crops fail because of drought, and to train and deploy firefighters to contain wildfires.

In Liberia, rapid response teams are being deployed to "hotspots" across the country to contain new outbreaks in the most remote communities as they are reported.