Sentence examples similar to curbed conversation from inspiring English sources

Both parents may work, curbing conversation at the dinner table.

"The problem is that this law can be very easily misused by influential persons to curb inconvenient conversations," said Marx Anthonisamy , a human rights activist who filed the public interest lawsuit.

But, over all, his security policy is surprisingly similar to President Bush's: Guantánamo remains an affront to our values and the world's, N.S.A. spying programs continue in force, drone strikes have been stepped up, and the White House has tried to curb serious public conversation about drones, spying and cyberwarfare.

Largely under the radar of national and even local media, California has begun a quiet revolution in climate policy that could change the whole national conversation about curbing global warming.

Free speech is curbed.

He has curbed costs.

Entrepreneurs' initiative is curbed.

Should capital flows be curbed?

That has curbed apartment construction.

Inflation was curbed.

Expansion plans will be curbed.