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Curtailing

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Present participle of curtail

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David Cameron has given Michael Gove the task of scrapping the Human Rights Act and curtailing the role of the European court of human rights.

As well as deploying "Task Force Mediterranean", which includes two fixed-wing surveillance aircraft and three patrol vessels in Operation Triton, ministers agreed a series of North African measures including finding ways of curtailing the supply of vessels from Tunisia and Egypt used by people smugglers.

However, addressing demand through policy (regulation) and transition (efficiencies and alternatives) will have a far greater impact on curtailing carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions.

What no one debated at the time were the implications of closing ancient public highways and curtailing public access and democratic protest.

To feel comfortable curtailing unconventional policy, central banks must make sure that the probabilities of nasty tail risks themselves have fallen.

"This clearly shows that consumers are not curtailing their driving and transportation needs at this point, and this trend should continue this summer".It's clear that demand is falling in America though not, it appears, by as much as we might have expected or hoped.

Other species, when their circumstances improve, react by raising their reproductive rate, not curtailing it.

It will respond by tightening policy, either by raising the nominal interest rate or curtailing other stimulative actions in order to bring expected inflation back down to 2%.

Although Mr Estrada took office only in June last year, he is being accused of three abuses reminiscent of the Marcos years: plotting to amend the constitution to extend his presidency, at present limited to one six-year term; tolerating cronyism; and curtailing the freedom of the press.

A senior Labour MP accuses the Speaker of killing debate by curtailing speeches and of filling the Commons with tour guides and outreach workers, until "it feels like a sort of parliamentary Disneyland-on-Thames".

AMONG those cutting corners and moaning about the dismal economy, there's at least one group that hasn't got the message about curtailing travel costs: children going to summer camp.

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