Sentence examples for merely containing from inspiring English sources

Merely containing it long enough to heat was a challenge.

No one is talking of victory over Isis; most speak of merely containing it.

This great discovery made possible the modern era of treating the disease itself, rather than merely containing it or treating the symptoms.

In 1984, he published an article called "Mistaken Identity" in which he recalled neoconservatives' initial hope that Mr. Reagan shared their dream of not merely containing but rolling back Communism.

Yet after a decade or more of this strategy, many in the addiction field began to question the moral and social costs of merely containing the problem instead of treating the underlying issues.

Mr. Romney has never explained how he would prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons; Mr. Obama not only has declared that all options are on the table, but he has also taken the option of merely "containing" a nuclear-armed Iran off the table.

Human evil must be confronted, he said, not merely contained.

It said it merely contained routine "slops" – the dirty water from tank washing.

In the nineteen-eighties, the neoconservatives believed that the Soviet Union could be defeated, not merely contained.

The simplest kinds of transposons merely contain a copy of the transposase with no additional genes.

Our constitutional tradition is not merely contained in the negative rights found in the bill of rights.