Example sentence - The firefighters expected to have full containment of the forest fire by the weekend.
It was called the CONTAINMENT POLICY.Please see this WikiAnswers Article which details how Containment worked.
I hope to contain the answer in this sentence. "Contain yourself!", shouted the babysitter. How many words does this question contain? How much information can my brain contain?
Foreign Service Officer, George F. Kennan, is the author of the policy on containment. Containment was the strategy the US used during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
The definition of oil containment booms is, 'a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill.' Containment booms help to prevent polluting the shore line.
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Nuclear power plants need to include containment systems.
The term containment has been and can be used for anything; the containment of a disease; the containment of water; containing a fire. Or containing a criminal in a building until he is either overtaken or surrenders to law enforcement. Containment was used in Europe, Asia, and Latin America to contain problems encountered by those regions. During the cold war the "term" CONTAINMENT was used to control communism. That was a name used to prevent the spread of communism. Military force was used to prevent that spread. Either by just showing up and letting them see the military force; as happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Or by actually USING the military force by killing them in war; as happened in the Korean War and Vietnam War.
Indirectly. There was a fear that if Iraq developed weapons of mass destruction that he might sell them on the black market. However, the term "containment" is typically used in reference to Communism and, in that regard, containment was not a reason for going to Iraq.
a doctrine of containment :p
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If you are found to be a danger to the community, one could get a "containment" conviction and be imprisoned (in theory) until death.
In reference to the word "Containment," in the historical context of Communism, containment is the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence. The actual word containment means to block passage or quarantine.