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We're working hard to keep that giant contained so it doesn't wake up. – Jim Schwarber	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If we had contained this at the Luanda level, we would not have had to spend the money that we're spending now. – Francisco Sondane	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We have nearly 2,000 firefighters on the line currently and the fire is 70 percent contained at the moment so it's at a point where we are able to manage the need appropriately. – Mike Long	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The defendants are hereby restrained from carrying out the threat contained in their communique. – Justice Babatunde Adejumo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The situation is under control and contained. – John Poister	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We were surprised by the percentage of infants who ate rice snacks and that one of these products contained levels above the current E.U. standard of 100 parts per billion, this was a strawberry flavored puffed rice snack, which contained 40 percent inorganic arsenic, with the first two ingredients listed as brown and white rice flour. – Margaret Karagas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All the levels we're expecting will be contained in the levee systems. – Jeff Graschel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bomb experts from the Navy and DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) have retrieved the device and are determining whether the components contained explosives. – Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These phone calls were in large part harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury and even death. – Mark Oberholtzer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Whatever allusions anyone may have had that our national security was not at stake in the conflict in Iraq and Syria or that ISIL was somehow contained, these attacks make it clear that ISIL’s threat against our homeland is real, direct and growing. – John McCain	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
President Obama's declaration tonight that his policies are working was strange, strange that it took four days from the attack to respond and even more strange that somehow the attack on our soil is proof his policies are working. One must wonder who has contained who. – Republican Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have not contained ISIL currently. – Joseph Dunford	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria, they'll come in, they'll leave, but Joseph Dunford don't see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It cannot be contained. It must be defeated. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don't think they're gaining strength, what is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They'll come in. They'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think on the consumer side, they need to be really watchful of what is actually contained in their plans and what they’re getting. – Stephen Dorner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The state may use any available judicial and political mechanism contained in the constitution and in the laws to defend the sovereignty of the Spanish people and of the general interest of Spain, those who want to divide and split Catalonia from Spain must know that they will not succeed. – Mariano Rajoy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A short film is even tougher in a way because it has to be a film. It has to be not something that is a prologue to a bigger work, it has to be contained in of itself, we all pulled together and we came up with these ideas ... and we shot five days straight. We also tried to make it a heightened ..., not biographical but reality-based with humor about ourselves. – Martin Scorsese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know this to be the evidence bag that once contained the rape kit evidence. We know this because the bag has a label on it. It contains my client's identity, it is authentic. – Thomas Eoannou	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They broadcast video footage that contained false news and aired it after editing it on Al Jazeera with the aim of harming the country. – Judge Hassan Farid	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Fundamentally there's not a lot to change the picture dramatically in the short term. Prices seem to be contained in a range for now. – Le Brun	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The parts of the Koran that are contained in those fragments are very similar indeed to the Koran as we have it today, so this tends to support the view that the Koran that we now have is more or less very close indeed to the Koran as it was brought together in the early years of Islam. – David Thomas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a very dynamic fire, so it's zero percent contained. They haven't been able to get out in front of it. – Patty Courson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Evangelical voters are looking for a thoughtful leader at a time like this, not someone who is simply an agitator, it's the next battle, the preservation of the free exercise clause contained in the First Amendment, that they need to be concerned with. – Craig Robinson	Found on CNN 8 years ago

We're working hard to keep that giant contained so it doesn't wake up.

– Jim Schwarber

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If we had contained this at the Luanda level, we would not have had to spend the money that we're spending now.

– Francisco Sondane

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have nearly 2,000 firefighters on the line currently and the fire is 70 percent contained at the moment so it's at a point where we are able to manage the need appropriately.

– Mike Long

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The defendants are hereby restrained from carrying out the threat contained in their communique.

– Justice Babatunde Adejumo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The situation is under control and contained.

– John Poister

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were surprised by the percentage of infants who ate rice snacks and that one of these products contained levels above the current E.U. standard of 100 parts per billion, this was a strawberry flavored puffed rice snack, which contained 40 percent inorganic arsenic, with the first two ingredients listed as brown and white rice flour.

– Margaret Karagas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All the levels we're expecting will be contained in the levee systems.

– Jeff Graschel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bomb experts from the Navy and DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) have retrieved the device and are determining whether the components contained explosives.

– Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These phone calls were in large part harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury and even death.

– Mark Oberholtzer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Whatever allusions anyone may have had that our national security was not at stake in the conflict in Iraq and Syria or that ISIL was somehow contained, these attacks make it clear that ISIL’s threat against our homeland is real, direct and growing.

– John McCain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

President Obama's declaration tonight that his policies are working was strange, strange that it took four days from the attack to respond and even more strange that somehow the attack on our soil is proof his policies are working. One must wonder who has contained who.

– Republican Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have not contained ISIL currently.

– Joseph Dunford

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria, they'll come in, they'll leave, but Joseph Dunford don't see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It cannot be contained. It must be defeated.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't think they're gaining strength, what is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They'll come in. They'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think on the consumer side, they need to be really watchful of what is actually contained in their plans and what they’re getting.

– Stephen Dorner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The state may use any available judicial and political mechanism contained in the constitution and in the laws to defend the sovereignty of the Spanish people and of the general interest of Spain, those who want to divide and split Catalonia from Spain must know that they will not succeed.

– Mariano Rajoy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A short film is even tougher in a way because it has to be a film. It has to be not something that is a prologue to a bigger work, it has to be contained in of itself, we all pulled together and we came up with these ideas ... and we shot five days straight. We also tried to make it a heightened ..., not biographical but reality-based with humor about ourselves.

– Martin Scorsese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know this to be the evidence bag that once contained the rape kit evidence. We know this because the bag has a label on it. It contains my client's identity, it is authentic.

– Thomas Eoannou

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They broadcast video footage that contained false news and aired it after editing it on Al Jazeera with the aim of harming the country.

– Judge Hassan Farid

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fundamentally there's not a lot to change the picture dramatically in the short term. Prices seem to be contained in a range for now.

– Le Brun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The parts of the Koran that are contained in those fragments are very similar indeed to the Koran as we have it today, so this tends to support the view that the Koran that we now have is more or less very close indeed to the Koran as it was brought together in the early years of Islam.

– David Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a very dynamic fire, so it's zero percent contained. They haven't been able to get out in front of it.

– Patty Courson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Evangelical voters are looking for a thoughtful leader at a time like this, not someone who is simply an agitator, it's the next battle, the preservation of the free exercise clause contained in the First Amendment, that they need to be concerned with.

– Craig Robinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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