"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That would explain recent calls for containing Iraq even as the war planning intensifies.
- Most other members of the international coalition that has worked together containing Iraq for the past four years support those demands.
- "Through constant confrontation, our policy of containing Iraq has been successful," he said.
- American military bases remained there until 2003, as part of an international commitment to contain Iraq.
- That's how he kept his word to contain Iraq.
- Nor, he adds, "was there ever a significant discussion" about the possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion.
- Left to themselves they will contain Iraq as a chicken contains a fox.
- While containing Iraq was a central focus, these troops also served many other purposes.
- Trying to contain both Iran and Iraq can't last.
- And it requires permanent military arrangements to contain Iraq within internationally recognized borders.
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