Sentence examples for curbed by a from inspiring English sources

We have already shown that this government's excesses can be curbed by a determined opposition.

The father's wandering eye could presumably be curbed by a more congenial homelife.

But Sharif's power has been curbed by a series of bruising fights with Pakistan's powerful military establishment and the treason case now appears tied up in legal wrangling.

Initially, though, there was a lot of hostility among the young, who thought their freedom was going to be curbed by a curfew.

Stark won't give him a permanent slot in the Avengers (even the powers of the Spider-suit are curbed by a demeaning restriction called "the Training Wheels Program"), and Peter longs to prove himself in good works.

Matti Salminen, although he sometimes stepped over the line into cartoon villainy (which could be easily curbed by a stronger director), nonetheless sang a Hagen to rank with the best of the past.

"This needs to be curbed by an iron hand," he said, according to the Associated Press.

"This needs to be curbed by an iron hand," he told a conference of state officials from across India convened to discuss how to protect women.

While the billionaire Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea, and Manchester United used their wealth in the transfer market, Wenger was starved of money, his budget curbed by financing a new stadium.

The concept of straight, fixed borders was alien to the local Bedouin tribes; Ibn Saud, the future first king of Saudi Arabia, objected to the attempts "to curb, by an imaginary line in the open desert, the movement of tribes who are accustomed to roam widely in search of pasturage and water".

However, this can be curbed by executing an extensive initial study.