He was something that had to be contained, complimented, condescended to, and, finally, co-opted, relegated at the Convention to subduing the passions of his followers.
It was all lies, and symptomatic of a force that saw protest as something that had to be contained, not facilitated.
As Maureen Freely wrote of it, "The New Life is not a novel but something too powerful to be contained in such a 'flimsy foreign toy'.
Like Gumby, Rhodes-Pitts is clearly very much enthralled by "something too vast to be contained on paper" and so has chosen the at once arbitrary and exhaustive medium of collage.
"Is this a threat to be contained or something to be eliminated?" Taliban fighters said a meeting was under way to choose a successor from among Mr. Mehsud's top deputies.
However, this has rarely been the case among other risk groups, in large-scale or state-sponsored programmes, or in the context of international development, where sex has been treated as something to be controlled and contained [ 11], and primarily in relation to population control, disease and violence [ 14, 15].
Marital infidelities would have been seen as just that - something to be regretted and contained, but not necessarily the first step to eviction.
What they thought was something to be caged and contained, we had been proudly baring for centuries.
While some have decried the over-identification of calamities with this date (surely, not everything bad that has ever happened to the Jewish people began in late July or early August), there is something to be said for containing all the communal rage and pain to one day, and then on that date, letting it all pour out.
The Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce... but which cannot be charmed or talked out of existence.
