Roger Schrum, an Ashland spokesman, reported that about 100 workers from the company were taking part in the containment effort yesterday.

At the time, those conditions were cited as obstacles to containment efforts.

Officials involved in the containment effort may be excited, but the country's livestock farmers share none of their enthusiasm.

At the most, I'd propose some kind of containment effort until we get more information from Pendergast.

Previous containment efforts relied on spraying larvicide, which had qualified success in reducing the fly population.

Flooding containment efforts until the mid-20th century primarily focused on floods from the Mississippi River.

By early to mid-March, favourable conditions aided containment efforts, and helped to extinguish the fires.

Favourable conditions aided containment efforts and extinguished many of the fires.

The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts.