The president practised a policy of containment, his face rigid with diplomatically suppressed emotions.
Bad as this deal is, however, it is the logical conclusion of a policy of containment.
The missile shields are aspects of a policy of containment, not prevention.
Return to a policy of containment of North Korea, for the time being, discouraging Japan and South Korea from undermining that policy with their own ill-advised overtures.
These developments have raised suspicions that the United States may be pulling back on its policy of engagement with China, as it commits more resources to a policy of containment.
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Administration and its failed policy of containment of Saddam.
The US was able to win the Cold War through its policy of containment because throughout the long conflict there was strong majority support in the US for continuing to pursue the war effort.
So it is possible that an American policy of containment, even an undeclared one, might lead to a long campaign of attrition of the kind that impoverished Iraq in the 1990s, while leaving its leader in power.
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Sir William - now ambassador to Saudi Arabia - acknowledged that international support for the sanctions policy in place against Iraq since 1991 - which underpinned the policy of containment - was steadily breaking down at the time.
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Given that militarily the forces of Islamic jihad are weaker than the US, it is reasonable to assume that if applied consistently for long enough, a policy of containment can indeed cause the forces of global jihad to collapse.
In remarks offered on the occasion of his receiving the Center for Security Policy's annual "Keeper of the Flame" award, Kasparov spoke of the decisive role in the destruction of Soviet communism played by President Harry Truman's policy of containment and President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
In its handling of the Iran-Iraq War, the Reagan administration adopted a policy of dual containment.
In the 1980s, recognizing the hostility of both countries to US national security interests, the Reagan administration wisely adopted a policy of dual containment toward them.
She made a three-day visit to China in April, where she made it clear that her policy is one of engagement, not containment.
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At some point, a leaky defensive containment policy reaches a tipping point when the penalties of continuing it outweigh the gains of preserving it.
Just back from Moscow, in a small office not far from here, he developed the doctrine of Containment that guided a generation of Cold War foreign policy.
In addition, the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability.
The coalition was "dealing with causes of social breakdown", whereas predecessors had pursued a "containment policy".
"It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies, " he wrote.
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