While Barry supports the CDC's general containment strategy, in the past he has publicly criticized Markel's work.

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And without such domestic solidarity around the necessity of combating jihadist terrorists, there is little chance that the US will be able to continue to enact its containment strategy for long enough to facilitate victory.

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Secretary Salazar, Director Browmich have been down in the region hosting public meetings, talking with stakeholders, talking with the industry to ensure that we came up with the right set of rules and the right set of safety mechanisms to ensure that something that will obviously always carry some risk also has within it a containment strategy that works for the American people.

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This week a meeting was held in Senegal to try to establish a regional strategy for containment.

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If so, honeyed words from the mouths of European leaders about needing and wanting Serbia will count for naught and a strategy of containment will come to the fore.

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Ronaldo has scored only five goals in 19 appearances during major internatioal tournaments and with Portugal adopting a strategy of containment he was never able to significantly influence the game.

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Mineau is also pursuing a strategy of containment.

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Before starting yet another war in the Middle East, it would be nice if we could try and remember the success of the strategy of containment, one of the most competently executed grand strategies in history.

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In the past, American grand strategy has been one of splendid isolation (from 1776 to 1941) or containment of the Soviet Union (1948-1989).

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