The act of containing something

Usage examples of containment.

Would you get a printout from the Office of Biosafety of all the people going in and out of the maximum containment lab for the last year?

Thus, containment of Iraq was intended not just to prevent Iraq from conducting new aggression beyond its borders but to prevent Iraq from rebuilding the military power to be able to even entertain the idea of new aggression.

If we could forgo the costs of a major invasion by relying on a revitalized containment program that we could be confident would last for many more years, there would be a strong case for doing so.

The United States could build a new containment regime centered on a set of punishing secondary sanctions that imposed real costs on those who buy Iraqi oil illegally and sell Baghdad prohibited military and dual-use items.

Blinking, I realized that the ergs had set the internal containment field at a comfortable one-sixth-g, pulling everyone toward the surface of the sphere, but then I noticed that the seats continued up and over and around the full interior of the sphere.

Het Masteen stood at the locus of a circle of organic control diskeys -- displays from the fiber-optic nerves running throughout the ship, holo displays from onboard, astern, and ahead of the treeship, a communicator nexus to put him in touch with the Templars standing duty with the ergs, in the singularity containment core, at the drive roots, and elsewhere, and the central holo-simulacrum of the treeship itself, which he could touch with his long fingers to call up interactives or change headings.

Marshals Service Special Operations Group under Deputy Supervisor Fagin will arrange perimeter cabin surveillance and containment, as well as staging-area security.

My crew has to work under very tight restraints, using Class One containment techniques, as with the old immunodeficiency plagues.

It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi.

The hawks, led by Indyk and Parris, countered that the United States could hold the line for as long as it wanted if the administration was willing to make Iraq a priority and push back hard whenever Iraq or one of its advocates challenged the sanctions, inspections, or other elements of containment.

The problem the United States faces today is that all of these elements of containment are foundering.

Moscow will resist a tightening of the containment regime with all of its influence and do what it can to head off a U.

All of them would probably prefer a revamped form of containment, if only because they would all find regime change somewhat unpalatable for one reason or another.

Given all of these advantages, even today containment is still the preferred option of many.

THE NO-FLY ZONES Of all the key elements of containment, the one under the least pressure right now is the Anglo-American patrols of the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.