He introduced an (ultimately losing) amendment curtailing a proposal to award green cards based on a point system that valued education and job skills more than mere family ties.
A Republican proposal could curtail a source of funding from donors such as billionaire investor George Soros that provided tens of millions of dollars to Democratic-leaning groups in the 2004 elections.
They simply considered the whole proposal a curtailing of their freedom.
The papers, seen by the Guardian, reveal British officials repeatedly trying to prevent the adoption of European Union rules on energy efficiency, curtailing the proposals and making them voluntary rather than mandatory in many cases.
Future development may be curtailed if a zoning proposal that would raise the minimum lot size from one to two acres is approved and implemented this summer.
Parallel negotiations with the Southern Railway over the proposals curtailed the extension at Morden, where a large new depot was constructed.
And even in Canada, where the world's largest seal hunt is scheduled to begin later this month and top leaders vigorously defend the industry, a legislator for the first time introduced a proposal to curtail sealing.
Penny carnivals in underserved neighborhoods, park programs, libraries, youth services — many of the things that people associated with living in a vibrant, responsive city may be sharply curtailed under preliminary budget proposals floating around City Hall.
And so, on the same day that the White House endorsed a proposal to curtail legal immigration to the United States, the brothers were put on a plane to San Salvador.
WASHINGTON — A band of Senate Democrats signaled on Monday that it would press forward when Congress convenes this week with a proposal to curtail filibusters and other methods of slowing the chamber's work, but a bit of procedural sleight-of-hand could delay any floor fight over the contentious rules changes until later in January.
In the early days of the Abbott government, a proposal to curtail consumer boycotts was abandoned in the face of fierce criticism, but the current attack on the charity status of outspoken environmental organisations is a similar threat to basic civic freedoms.
