Even the government has made loud noises about curbing tax avoidance, giving £900m to Revenue & Customs to fight it.
Laborious and complex, the talks have been dogged by finger-pointing between rich and poor countries over sharing the burden for curbing carbon emissions.
Julian Huppert, a Lib Dem MP and a party spokesman on home affairs, has indicated that the Lib Dems favour curbing the terrorist laws such as the one used to detain Miranda.
Notwithstanding our differences of opinion, which remain, we worked closely and fruitfully together to advance the important processes of that time – curbing the arms race, European developments, German unification and reversing Iraq's aggression in the Middle East.
In Uganda, curbing tobacco consumption has been an uphill battle against lobbying by the tobacco industry.
Ibrahim believes the government has currently lost all credibility by curbing and censoring the press, interfering with the judiciary and escaping accountability for its actions by influencing the "free and fair elections" process.
The 1% decline in the total number of international students in 2013 was mainly caused by a 50% drop in the number of postgraduate students coming from India and Pakistan – following the introduction of tougher conditions for applicants and the curbing of opportunities for working in the UK after graduation.
Labour is proposing to limit student tuition fees to £6,000, paid for by curbing the annual amounts the well-off can put into pensions and obtain tax relief.
Angela Merkel, the chancellor, told the prime minister that British insistence on curbing freedom of movement would be a "point of no return" that could sharply increase the risk of Britain leaving the EU, Der Spiegel news magazine reported on Sunday.
"The authorities can show their commitment to curbing this violent trend by finding Ananta Bijoy Das's killers and bringing them to justice".
Oh, and by the way: While the Tories were celebrating the defeat of Ed Balls, I wonder how many of them reflected that the much-feted powers of the Bank of England to aim at sufficient growth to achieve the inflation target were the work of Brown and Balls, as was the curbing of Tony Blair's wish to take the UK into the euro.
