The act of keeping something dangerous under control or within limits.
If you need an example think of quarantine the dangerous disease be Corona Virus and to keep it under control we are staying inside.
A primary example of a primary source, ironic wording there.
Would be first hand accounts, documents, journals, text, anything from the era or timeframe where the subject is from.
Ex: Revolutionary War
Primary Source: George Washington's speeches
"men of the sword" and "men of the pen"