Sentence examples for curtail for from inspiring English sources

This is due to the fact that by the time a law is written to curtail, for instance, some form of copyright infringement facilitated by a particular file sharing technology, that technology has become out of date and users are on to something else that facilitates copyright infringement (Lessig 1999).

It is also a bit too curtailed for cogency.

The BBC Proms were somewhat curtailed for me this week by extensive explorations of the West Country.

The publication of official statistics was curtailed, for fear that it would encourage civil servants to meddle.

"In practice, these freedoms have proved to be distinctly curtailed for China's citizens," committee members said, adding, "China's new status must entail increased responsibility".

Following Öcalan's capture in 1999, PKK activities were sharply curtailed for several years before the party resumed guerilla activities in 2004.

Defending the changes, Tony Abbott has mounted a freedom of speech argument but Mundine said many freedoms are already curtailed for the protection of others.

Now that we are renovating a 200-year-old house in the English countryside, our excursions to luxury hotels have to be curtailed for a while.

The Bush administration's effort to re-establish military ties with Indonesia, which has been curtailed for nearly a decade because of its army's widespread human rights violations, has some unexpected support among Indonesians.

— As California faces one of its worst droughts in two decades, building projects are being curtailed for the first time under state law by the inability of developers to find long-term water supplies.

But he added: "In practice, these freedoms have proved to be distinctly curtailed for China's citizens".