Noun(1) (2) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully(3) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor(4) (military) the act of containing something or someone(5) keeping it from spreading
Noun(1) (2) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully(3) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor(4) (military) the act of containing something or someone(5) keeping it from spreading
(1) A necessary corollary of the westward expansion of the frontier was the western containment of its indigenous population.(2) To be sure, there are situations in which containment is an entirely appropriate policy.(3) I think there needs to be some kind of line in the sand drawn, there needs to be containment for these children.(4) It's time for a policy of containment , which I hereby revise to include a blockade.(5) Cost containment is a prerequisite, otherwise the gains of the last decade could be put in jeopardy, said the report.(6) It has leapt out of its containment and so become volatile.(7) With careful, economic and compelling prose they follow the virus from its first emergence to its containment .(8) The successful containment of the SARS outbreak was therefore due to both the efficiency of quarantine and the nature of the virus itself.(9) I'm going to make my way to the control room and disengage the magnetic containment field.(10) Opponents of war are making the case that containment works.(11) They've had no new weapons system for a decade due to the policy of containment .(12) Even in those circumstances, war might well have been unwise compared to a policy of containment .(13) The wall, in conjunction with the low-permeability formation, provides containment of the material within the wall.(14) A capping and topsoil layer will then be used to cover the whole site to ensure containment of waste in the long term and to sustain vegetation.(15) Today we have the tattered remnants of a containment policy, which was reasonably effective for a few years.(16) Shelly felt that a policy of containment and negotiation was the appropriate course of action.
