Sentence examples for curb the ability from inspiring English sources
The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing whether to curb the ability of shareholders from quietly building stakes in companies.
Various efforts to reform the shareholder proposal process, SEC Rule 14a-8, ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to formally curb the ability of share owners to file proposals.
It is naive in the extreme to imagine that a political party would ever legislate to curb the ability of the popular press to peddle its daily menu of cheap salacious gossip and financially-motivated kiss-and-tell stories.
Zimmer became an anti-lobbyist hero in 1995 when he tried to push through the 'Revolving Door Act' to curb the ability of those leaving office to cash in on their contacts and flock to the lobbying industry.
Investigators are also examining whether there were violations of a law intended to curb the ability of outside groups to influence the race for House speaker, the lawyers said.
Over the weekend, President Obama pressed lawmakers to approve the new rules, which would curb the ability of card issuers to raise interest rates retroactively on consumers and would require them to reduce hidden fees and penalties.
It has also curbed the ability of United Nations peacekeepers to protect themselves or others.
With the support of other Reagan appointees (Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and, later, Anthony Kennedy), the court curbed the ability of Congress to expand federal authority and curtailed affirmative action.
They are aimed at curbing the ability of the North's leadership to generate cash through elaborate counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Trumka's praise turned to scorn when asked about Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, an expected presidential candidate who pushed through a landmark 2011 law that curbed the ability of his state's public sector unions to bargain collectively.
Such a move would have prohibited the state's Republican-dominated legislature from enacting a "right to work" law or passing legislation that, like the law in Wisconsin, curbed the ability of government workers to bargain collectively.
