Sentence examples for be a curb from inspiring English sources

It is not in short supply and cannot therefore be a curb on growth.

It was meant to be a curb on government spending, but in reality, Congress typically passes budgets that spend more money than the latest debt limit.

It would, in essence, be a curb on freedom of movement – a freedom I have never fully experienced, because of my nationality.

Some restaurants had set up tables at the bottom, next to what used to be a curb but now, with the elevation of the road, is a three-foot wall.

A melted trash can stands on what used to be a curb.

Although it is understandable that excluding these patients would reduce the risk of type I error (false-positives) of finding sepsis-induced myocardial depression, such exclusion could be a curb on giving the answer if pre-existing cardiac conditions would pre-dispose patients to sepsis-induced myocardial depression and/or increase the risk of death.

Britain also had a boom in house prices but its rigid planning laws were a curb on construction.

Critics denounced the law as discriminatory and said it is a curb on rights to free speech and assembly.

The mandate is a curb on "free riding" — people opportunistically paying for insurance only when they need it and refusing to pay when they're healthy.

The sneaky bill to watch out for is a curb on Lords powers, glancingly referenced as the "primacy of the Commons".

For the Lebanese across society he was a curb against that government's imperialism.