Sentence examples for curbing practices from inspiring English sources

The announcement was cheered by free-speech campaigners, who called it the clearest signal yet that the government was serious about curbing practices like "libel tourism," in which foreigners have turned to the British courts for redress even when their complaints have little or no connection to Britain.

Resulting sanctions, the most stringent possible under the guidelines, lowered the maximum number of scholarship players this season to 10 from 13 while curbing practice hours and the number of scheduled games.

REUTERS Regulators Announce Tighter Ruleses for Municipal Bonds  |  Looking to prevent debt disasters like the one in Jefferson County, Ala., federal regulators issued new rules on Friday that are intended to curb practices like Wall Street firms' underwriting a state's bonds while helping other customers trade against them, The New York Times reports.

Some of the proposals are highly technical, but the overall goal is to curb practices that artificially separate taxable income from the economic activities that generate it.The plan seeks to tackle abuse of treaties that were originally designed to avoid double taxation but which can be used in combination to ensure double non-taxation.

We believe it is our responsibility to encourage creative product development and to curb practices that compromise innovation.

The reliance on local, institutional guidelines to curb practice relative to acid suppressive therapy appears to have minimal effect [ 13].

The most effective way of curbing predatory practices is to withdraw limited liability and hold the shareholders and directors of these enterprises personally liable.

It is absurd, however, for Republicans to attack Mr. Obama for carrying out an unprecedented "regulatory jihad" when, in fact, the administration has a mediocre record when it comes to curbing dangerous practices by industry.

The administration says it is "closing loopholes" and curbing "abusive practices" that states have used to expand Medicaid without putting up all the state money required by federal law.

There are dozens of state insurance regulations aimed at curbing insurance practices that were considered by legislators to be harmful to consumers, that emerged during the latter nineties when there was a general backlash against managed care [26],[26],[26].

In his press briefing on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs all but invited Republicans to attack the president's proposal to tax roughly 50 of the nation's largest banks as a way of recouping TARP funds and curbing compensation practices.