Sentence examples for interested in containing from inspiring English sources

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".

The Syrian government maintains that it remains deeply interested in containing the fighters.

It further suggested that at least 40 corruption cases involving senior officers had been "buried" by the Internal Affairs Bureau and that several previous police commissioners had been more interested in containing corruption scandals than containing corruption.

For these reasons the need to develop synthetic methods to prepare these nitrogen compounds on a large scale has led to interest in these heterocyclic compounds which contain nitrogen.

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

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

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.

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

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.