Sentence examples for curb the activity from inspiring English sources
Hogg's parents allowed this to continue until Thomas cut his chin, after which Jim Hogg nailed tacks along the center of the railing to curb the activity through fear of bloodied posteriors; the holes from the tacks remained visible in the banister for many decades after the Hogg family moved from the home.
Hosts have evolved several lines of defense to curb the activity of transposons, including barriers to transcription and means to process transposon-encoded RNAs, though their effectiveness in curbing expression of specific TEs in different contexts are not well described.
Newspaper publishers have called on the government to curb the activities of search engines and social media websites.
Hamas in Gaza has tried to curb the activities of militants after Israel's devastating three-week war.
President Bush called the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, and could hardly have failed to ask him to curb the activities of Syrian-backed forces in Lebanon.
But the government has struggled to revive the economy and has come under fire from secularists who accuse it of failing to curb the activities of Salafi Islamists.
His government has come under increasing pressure to to curb the activities of the 969 movement and ensure the safety of the Muslim population.
President Obama's proposals to tax and curb the activities of Wall Street have thrown an unpredictable element into the debate over financial regulatory reform.
Reconciliation pledges by senior members of the present Shia-led government have failed to curb the activities of death squads run by Shia militias.
Tomlinson had initially been supportive of a private member's bill put forward by the Labour MP Stella Creasy to curb the activities of payday lenders, but eventually voted with the government.
The United States plans to increase pressure on Pakistan to curb the activities of two militant Islamic groups after a suicide attack on the Indian Parliament that killed seven people, American officials said.
