Sentence examples for manage to contain from inspiring English sources

The security services and police may manage to contain it.

He said only a coach like Hurley and a program like St. Anthony could manage to contain such players' egos.

Everybody has a shadow self to contend with but most manage to contain it effectively as they settle into their regimented routines of daily living.

Neat packets of crispy rice pastry, hardly bigger than Scrabble tiles, somehow manage to contain a stuffing of sweet shrimp, crab meat, pork, shitake mushrooms and crunchy jicama.

I now feel as if he's insulted my mother, and am within an inch of saying, 'Well, I expect it went over your head', but manage to contain myself.

Even the revised predictions may be optimistic, because they are based on the assumption that Western Europe will slow to a standstill but avoid recession, and that policy makers will manage to contain the debt crisis.

But Knoblauch managed to contain his anger.

Tsipras managed to contain the rebellion in his own ranks.

Senegal has managed to contain the spread of the disease through sex education and condom promotion.

Police managed to contain the clash without arrests but issued a number of move-on orders.

Fortunately, in this case, a massive vaccination campaign managed to contain the outbreak.