Sentence examples for try to contain a from inspiring English sources

Several fire crews were deployed to try to contain a bushfire at Hervey Range, north of Townsville, by backburning.

On Saturday, Nevis will try to contain a quarterback who has been just as hard to handle: Auburn's Cameron Newton.

CBP has temporarily closed all highway checkpoints along the 268-mile stretch of border in the El Paso sector to try to contain a surge in illegal entry.

Seeking to reassure a close American ally that contends it has reached a moment of reckoning with Iran, Mr. Obama rejected suggestions that the United States was willing to try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran.

Shorten made undertakings at the last federal conference to double the number of asylum seekers Australia accepts, and to increase resourcing for the UNHCR, to try to contain a boilover.

As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union works.

The Chinese have tried to contain a budding Uighur nationalist movement in Xinjiang, a huge region on its western border.

Wuertz tries to contain a sociological history of Korea by structuring it around the romantic entanglements of her characters.

To hawks inside and outside the administration, trying to contain a nuclear Iran is the ultimate sin.

Otherwise it's like trying to contain a tornado.' Manson's girlfriends are one thing, his attitude to women in general quite another.

The Chinese government has tried to contain a budding nationalist spirit among the Uighurs and is battling a small but tenacious terrorist movement of Uighur separatists.