Sentence examples for forces to contain from inspiring English sources

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The decision to disband the army has come under particular criticism given the pressing need for forces to contain the insurgency and what even United States officials say is poor performance by some of the new recruits.

The military situation has changed drastically in the last few weeks as the Albanians have broadened their area of control and have exposed the inability of the army and security forces to contain the threat.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of Syrians turned out Friday for weekly protests in the country's most restive towns and cities, denouncing as insincere an overture by President Bashar al-Assad for dialogue and testing the ability of the military and the government's already-stretched security forces to contain the unrest.

The Ultras also briefly appeared on Qasr Al-Aini Street on Thursday, where masked demonstrators used huge metal pipes to tear down portions of the wall erected by the security forces to contain protests.

At midnight General Dietrich Kraiss, commander of the 352nd Division, reporting the total loss of men and equipment in the coastal positions, advised that he had sufficient forces to contain the Americans on D+1 but that he would need reinforcements thereafter, only to be told that there were no more reserves available.

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By Dexter Filkins President Obama has been reluctant to use military force to contain the Syrian crisis, but the pressure is mounting for him to intervene.

He will need to keep his options open while still convincing investors that the central bank is willing to use overwhelming force to contain euro zone borrowing costs.

Ortiz and Hollandsworth, assuming the ball would be caught, broke late for second and home, and Burnitz could have conceded Colorado's first run and thrown to second for an easy force to contain the damage.

It also sent a timely signal to Saddam Hussein that the Bush administration, which includes several of the men who commanded the Persian Gulf war, will not shy away from using force to contain any new Iraqi military threat.

As an example, for the case of ℓ 1 norm minimization, the entries of the regression solution were forced to contain mostly zero entries, that is the technique forces the weights of the speakers from background set who are least similar to the test speaker to zero, and thus ignores the contribution of those speakers in the likelihood computation.

Buhari has called for a strong regional force to contain the Islamist movement, pinning his hopes on the Multi-National Joint Task Force.

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