"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- My only wish is that the Wikileaks contained leaks (or history) that went much further back, then Mugabe and Tsvangirai's role would be that of extras and irrelevant!
- When the risk of tank failure is not as likely or when it would not cause extensive damage, the bunding may be designed to merely contain small leaks from hoses and valves.
- This arrangement will be as effective in containing leaks as the Maginot line was in containing the Third Reich.
- Glancing up at the TV screens mounted around the control room, he watched the crew battle to contain leaks and small fires all over the ship.
- A Lack of Structures A Swedish team that inspected the power plant in January reported that two of the four reactors, which entered service in 1974 and 1976, lacked structures to contain radioactive leaks.
- Mr. Fleischer said that he had direct access to the president and that he saw him "very often," but granted that this White House had tailored its press office to control information and contain leaks.
- Toiletry bags are bulky and don't always contain leaks.
- The site was selected over Nevada's objections in a political bargain, without reference to its technical preferability, and there are unresolved doubts about its ability to contain leaks and indications that the local water could corrode the waste containers and dissolve the waste itself.
- Containing emissions and leaks strikes me as the right way of meeting the aim of reducing fluorinated gas emissions into the atmosphere.
- On 19 April 2005 83,000 litres of radioactive waste was discovered to have leaked in the Thorp reprocessing plant from a cracked pipe into a huge stainless steel-lined concrete sump chamber built to contain leaks.
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