8 sentences with 'contain'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contain and other words derived from it.
• « There are twenty-two different amino acids and different proteins contain them in varying relative proportions. »
• « The perfect diet should contain a harmonious proportion of the basic substances that exist in foods. »
• « A good diet should contain ten to fifteen percent protein, which is found in all meats and also in certain vegetables and cereals. »
• « The Sassanids in Persia were far more aggressive and better organised than the previous Parthian dynasty had been, and Rome was forced to wage almost constant warfare to contain the Persian threat. »
• « Charles V proved unable to contain the explosion of the Protestant Reformation, he was involved in continuous defensive wars against both France and the Turks, and his territories were so far apart that he spent most of his life travelling between them. »
• « Monarchs and social elites watched in horror as the French Revolution radicalised, and the armies of states such as Prussia and Austria tried to contain it even as their police forces cracked down on potential sympathisers. »
• « The powers that defeated Napoleon had some specific objectives at the conference. They sought to create a lasting conservative order in France itself. They hoped to contain French ambition and avoid the threat of another revolution. »
• « In turn, France and Russia created a strong alliance in 1893 largely to contain the ambitions of Germany, whose territory lay between them. »