Sentence examples for curtail conflict from inspiring English sources

"NSF's charter is to fund basic science and engineering research across all disciplines, including research that fosters understanding of human factors that can sustain our environment, prevent illness, maintain a robust economy, curtail conflict and advance democracy," said NSF's Judith Gan, head of legislative and public affairs, in a statement to ScienceInsider.

For now, many of the systems in place, like twice-daily trash pickup, seemed to curtail any conflict.

It says the vote this week is a "landmark opportunity" for Europe to take action to stem the trade and curtail the conflict it engenders.

And it would curtail possible conflicts of interest at companies that assign levels of risk to packages of mortgages that are sold to investors.

Nearly four decades later, Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department insider who had taken a copy of the Pentagon Papers to a new post at the RAND Corporation, leaked the secret study of the Vietnam war to The New York Times in hopes of curtailing the conflict.

A1 Plan for Mutual Fund Reforms The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to reform the regulation of mutual funds with measures to curtail abusive trading, clarify conflict of interest rules and compel better disclosure of fees.

The Army must restore balance to its training, which sacrificed skills at the high end of armed conflict, curtailing exercises with tanks to focus on the insurgency fight in Iraq.

He would curtail the babble of conflicting statements from governments, which have contributed to the currency's instability.

President Thabo Mbeki and the leaders of Nigeria and Algeria have been advocating a sweeping strategy to encourage economic and social development in Africa by curtailing corruption and conflict.

The homebuilding firm of Levitt and Sons had specialised in upper middle class dwellings on New York's Long Island before the second world war, only to be curtailed by the conflict's enormous consumption of construction resources.

We also ignore an entire tradition of enlightenment thinking that concerned the question of how nation states can curtail their natural tendency towards conflict by conditioning their claims to sovereignty through international legally sanctioned structures.