The president practised a policy of containment, his face rigid with diplomatically suppressed emotions.

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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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In its handling of the Iran-Iraq War, the Reagan administration adopted a policy of dual containment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The coalition was "dealing with causes of social breakdown", whereas predecessors had pursued a "containment policy".

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"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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