"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The choice now is whether to lead this alliance in containing Iran and preventing Iraq's collapse, or to decide the risks are too high and withdraw.
- Cut straight across America's own policy of trying to contain Iran - absolutely contrary to it.
- No chance of rallying moderate Arab leaders to fight extremists or contain Iran.
- It could also help American efforts to contain Iran.
- Those "other things," he said, "are containing Iran and Iraq."
- Trying to contain both Iran and Iraq can't last.
- That means that the policy of containing Iran only by half-hearted sanctions and diplomacy has failed.
- But the parallel effort by the United States to contain Iran through economic sanctions is falling apart.
- We cannot sit and hope to contain Iran.... We need to say clearly that we will be doing covert activity.
- (This may turn out to be as dumb as helping Iraq in the 80's to contain Iran.)
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