The mother performs this firm tactile containment after the infant has undergone a behaviorally disruptive procedure such as suctioning, blood drawing, or even diaper change and temperature check.
In these circumstances it is clear that the main elements of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies".
He urged "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies". Such a posture, he predicted, including "the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points," would induce a "gradual mellowing" of Stalin's system.
In many respects, it was an eloquent re-statement of the Long Telegram, and it is famous for a single sentence: "It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies".
Some of America's Iran-watchers are therefore advocating a longer game.Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has been dusting down the article George Kennan wrote from Moscow under the pseudonym X in 1947, calling for "patient but firm and vigilant containment" of the Soviet Union.
In an anonymous article in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs, George F. Kennan, diplomat and U.S. State Department adviser on Soviet affairs, suggested a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" in the hope that the regime would mellow or collapse.
The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.
The chief operating officer of a cost-containment firm lists five ways we can reduce operating expenses.
We still think that PNC shares have room to run as we are constructive on the firm's operating momentum, continued cost containment and refocus on its consumer business.
The oil firm said it was hopeful that a 100-tonne containment box, being shipped to the site of the leak, will stem the flow of oil.
