Sentence examples for they were containing from inspiring English sources

Officers were told they were containing or detaining those in the climate camp to prevent a breach of the peace.

Using bulldozers, tankers filled with water and four-wheel-drive trucks, they were containing the fire last night, officials said, although the fire was still smoldering.

In the meantime, all the bimetallic nanoparticles synthesized under every condition showed that they were containing oxygen elements.

We were all asking, "What's going on?" We knew that violence started in Benghazi, they were containing terrorism, but we were not expecting that announcement.

I now know that they were containing their happiness as I sobbed and told them how proud I was of them.

They were contained in a decaying black garbage bag.

It may have been the vessel they were contained in – a peanut butter jar.

Paine's closing years, pitiful as they were, contained one triumph.

They were contained by the security and did not make it to the seats.

In the end they were contained... there is a difficult balance because they were intermingling with, and were in amongst, getting on for 400,000 TUC protesters.

They were contained instead in a male-enhancement product called ExtenZe, bought over the counter from a convenience store.