Last week, Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, shut down access to Twitter's servers in an attempt to curtail relentless criticism of his government.
According to Mr. Borrero, Mr. Light said that the representatives had threatened to block the renewal of WADO's federal radio license if the commentator did not curtail his criticism.
Some of Mr. Hariri's allies, notably the Druse leader, Walid Jumblatt, began to curtail their criticisms of Syria and Hezbollah.
Here Nicolson pushes against the rather too heavily mortgaged boundaries of his genre; one feels him curtailing literary criticism in the interest of narrative.
Kim's low profile, however, has not curtailed international criticism of the oppressive regime's human rights record.
This year, the president is likely to curtail his overseas trips, hoping to avoid criticism from voters or his Republican rivals.
And some critics questioned whether the inspections — Apple said the manufacturers had agreed to do them voluntarily — would sharply curtail problems or merely help Apple deflect criticism.
The commission has come under withering criticism this summer, accused of failing to curtail excessive speculation in commodity markets.
In response to criticism that it was doing too little to curtail excessive overtime, the firm started turning off the lights at 10pm at its Tokyo headquarters to encourage employees to go home.
In the early days of the Abbott government, a proposal to curtail consumer boycotts was abandoned in the face of fierce criticism, but the current attack on the charity status of outspoken environmental organisations is a similar threat to basic civic freedoms.
