Sentence examples for interest in containing from inspiring English sources

He said the west and Iran had a common interest in containing Isis.

So what should European leaders — who have an overwhelming interest in containing the Spanish crisis — do?

I think the two countries have a joint interest in containing the implosion of Pakistan.

There is also an unstated mutual interest in containing China's rising influence in the region.

Back in February in Munich, Vice President Biden and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were talking privately about the shared U.S.-Russian interest in containing Syria's chemical weapons.

Then, this month, came outreach to Jordan and Morocco — two pro-Western, Sunni monarchies with a common interest in containing Shiite Iran.

Although President Obama insisted during his trip to four East Asian countries worried about China's rapid rise (while not visiting China) that, "We're not interested in containing China," some experts nevertheless were correctly calling it the "containment tour".

Two years ago, Attorney General Janet Reno chartered an interagency task force, saying, "We are not interested in containing modern-day slavery; we want to eradicate it".

We do, of course, have real national interests in containing Islamist transnational terrorism and in a stable Pakistan, but again, this is a different question whose answer will not be found in propping up the corrupt Karzai cabal.

In a trip to several Asian countries in April, the president said flatly that the United isn't interested in containing China, while warning that it must avoid aggression against Japan and other U.S. allies.

They note that even if the relationship is complicated, it's one the U.S. needs to take seriously, given mutual interests in containing North Korea's nuclear capacity, maintaining global economic stability and combating climate change.