Verb (used with object) : This glass contains water. This paddock contains our best horses. ,The room will contain 75 persons safely. ,He could not contain his amusement. ,to contain an epidemic. ,efforts to contain water pollution. ,Ten contains five. ,A quart contains two pints. From Dictionary.com.
Even though mothballs are toxic, they're containable. From Wordnik.com. [The Extent of the Law] Reference
But the reality was containable; we could manage this. From Wordnik.com. [Quiller Bamboo]
Did it make the job manageable and the problem containable?. From Wordnik.com. [Technology and Child Labor] Reference
In theory, the risk of an inflationary burst is containable. From Wordnik.com. [Easing Comes, Easing Goes at BOE] Reference
The barely containable president pressed her for a decision. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Opposite Twins' Clash Over the Future of Europe] Reference
For a time the U.S. home-loan woes almost seemed containable. From Wordnik.com. [Amid Gazprom's power play,] Reference
Greece's economy would collapse, but the contagion is containable. From Wordnik.com. [The Euro Can Survive a Greek Default] Reference
I believe that heSaddam can be deterred and is containable at this point. From Wordnik.com. [More Reviews for McClellan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
I didn't even hide them under the bed: unlike thirst, hunger is containable. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
The best we can do is to make sure that they occur rarely and are containable. From Wordnik.com. [The oil spill and risk management] Reference
The disease is virtually containable, but it is politically incorrect to say so. From Wordnik.com. [Senate Moves on AIDS Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
My existence says no,all women are not all small, cute, dainty, and containable. From Wordnik.com. [You Must Be This Tall To Ride « Gender Across Borders] Reference
Then there is the whispered assumption that a nuclear Iran would be "containable.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama and Iran] Reference
As the NIE makes clear, if Iran is threat at all, it is manageable and containable. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Giraldi: Neocons Strike Back on Iran] Reference
Nor am I surprised that Pletka would decimate the argument that Iran is containable. From Wordnik.com. [Can we live with a nuclear Iran?] Reference
"We have not contained the containable," Milken said at a Washington news conference. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease | Impact Lab] Reference
I offer you proof that Ferris does have his moments of barely containable excitement and joy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
You can just as easily argue that it's better to pass this law while the problem is containable. From Wordnik.com. [To Ban the Burqa] Reference
For it to be true, mind must be containable by the material: no part of the mind can be numinous. From Wordnik.com. [The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
A way of making sense, of ordering our human experiences into something manageable, containable. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
Pornography is not contained, nor would be it even be containable, within the borders of The Road. From Wordnik.com. [The pornography of despair] Reference
Yet the reality is that a nuclear Iran, though containable, would not be a good thing for the world. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Meserole: Top 10 Reasons to Repeal the Military Commissions Act] Reference
In my view, there are only two categories of DD that matter: containable DD (CDD) and uncontainable DD (UDD). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
They are email worms and viruses, like Klez, and they're spread because of real, containable security errors. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives] Reference
In attempting to keep the document to containable length, I hadn't considered what would be important to them. From Wordnik.com. [between silk and cyanide]
MS had been a curable (or containable) disease since the introduction of chemical sclerostatins ten years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
They thought it was likely that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, but they also thought he was containable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005] Reference
Though we knew that you would not see this as parched earth or statistics or anything safe and distant and containable. From Wordnik.com. [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]
I was being SEMI- facetious about the Henrys, but they might form a containable test plot, especially for non- desert species. From Wordnik.com. [Pleistocene Revival: Update 1] Reference
And, also, it means that conflicts could always have a potential to go nuclear, when -- whereas, now, they're much more containable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2007] Reference
I think what we've had is some individual acts of theft, and they've been more than containable by the police and the National Guard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001] Reference
True that there is no guarantee that the costs of the program would be containable, but that's still the theory of universal coverage. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Health Plan, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Life support was no problem in terms of food and water: thirst would develop but that would be containable for the short period involved. From Wordnik.com. [The Mandarin Cypher]
That looks containable in a way a referendum might not have been. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Are the North's nuclear actions still reversible or at least containable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Star > News Feed] Reference
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