These tremors in the international financial system are serious and must be contained.

A list on Wikipedia also purports to show nearly 80 documented barrel bomb attacks in Syria.

Areas will be selected primarily on the basis of having highly localised density of Palestine refugees.

None of these problems can be resolved or even contained unilaterally.

Perhaps. But it has not appeared yet, and it may be adequately contained if it does.

The result was the Mexican peso crisis of later that year (which I, as US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had to help contain).

Without having intended it, the EU now seems to be encouraging the very forces that postwar European unity was designed to contain.

Rather than attempt to democratize or contain Russia, the Union should settle on the more limited goal of turning Russia into a reliable partner, bound by the rule of law.

China, humiliated by Kim Jong Il, will for the first time have to assume leadership in the region and resolve, or at least contain, the crisis.

The body of the compendium contains sensitive information on technological details of research and production by Iraq of chemical and biological weapons and development of its indigenous missile systems in combination with information on former suppliers to Iraq.

Experts agree that pandemics can be slowed, but not contained. Officials who promise or imply that they can keep this pandemic from their borders, or stop it once it has arrived, are setting themselves up for public outrage later.

We know what happened when the twin pulls of blood and soil determined European politics before. Without having intended it, the EU now seems to be encouraging the very forces that postwar European unity was designed to contain.