Sentence examples for Aggressively curtailing from inspiring English sources

BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, sits atop a sector that is deeply out of favor with investors, and it is aggressively curtailing its spending in hopes of winning them over.

WALL STREET JOURNAL After Going All In During Mining Boom, BHP Cuts Its Ambitions  |  BHP Billiton, the world's largest company in a sector that is deeply out of favor with investors, is aggressively curtailing its spending in hopes of winning them over.

A listing would aggressively curtail oil and gas production, so legislators and the administration are trying to avoid it at all costs.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many gun control advocates used the campaign against big tobacco as the model for their movement, seeing guns as a public health threat that needed to be aggressively curtailed, if not eliminated completely.

New borrowing will be sharply curtailed.

In the case of Iran, Washington has moved aggressively to curtail Tehran's ability to finance its extensive nuclear program both by blocking its access to Western oil-drilling technology and by curbing its export sales.

Aware of the potential consequences, Florida's thousands of growers have aggressively moved to curtail its spread.

After all, the Republican-led House of Representatives has been aggressively moving to curtail protections for endangered species and regulations for clean air and water, and most of the Republican presidential candidates have been intensely critical of any government effort to address climate change.

Until now, Mr. Langdon said, "the government has not aggressively used their imposition of penalties as a way of curtailing abusive transactions".

But some environmentalists have expressed disappointment over the consequences of the Nafta treaty and say the administration should have more aggressively forced industry to curtail greenhouse gases.

In Washington, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said in an interview Wednesday that the administration was prepared to pursue aggressively several new openings for peace in the Middle East, but he insisted that the onus for curtailing violence remained on Mr. Arafat.