Sentence examples for curtail movements from inspiring English sources

By 1926, the Outlying District Ordinance decreed the closure of the frontier to curtail movements in and out for security reasons.54 Ten years later, the Special District Ordinance of 1934 demarcated tribal grazing areas for each ethnic group in the frontier.

Fear of a pandemic could lead to a restrictionist race, as nations compete to curtail movement and build walls.

That is why most team executives (who are forbidden from speaking publicly on labor issues) expect more drastic measures to curtail movement in the next collective bargaining agreement.

If French feminists saw scarf-wearing Muslims as oppressed women, it should be a reason not to expel them from school or to curtail their movements, but to embrace them.

The net result is that Ai reportedly appears to be under house arrest, after a fashion, at his compound in Beijing, though it also appears that the local cops would rather not have received the order to curtail the movements of one of world's least coöperative people.

As the producers' luck would have it, on October 31st, when the first episode of "Britz" aired, the House of Lords issued a complex ruling on the legality of one of the measures the drama criticises: so-called "control orders", which allow the government to curtail the movements and behaviour of suspected terrorists.

The protests were enough to force Mr Jiang to curtail his movements around Phnom Penh, but not enough to elicit any sign of Chinese introspection, far less any kind of apology.The Tiananmen massacre of 1989 elicits similar embarrassment from China and a similar policy of sweeping awkwardness under the carpet.

These two losses were significant enough to compel the German Navy to curtail the movements of the fleet in the Baltic for the remainder of the year.

Many experts say they oppose efforts to curtail the movement of migrants, but they are debating possible ways to help poor countries cope.

The Danish government took out ads in Lebanese newspapers telling potential refugees that it planned to make life harder for them, and briefly cut off its rail connections to Germany, in order to curtail their movement.

Many refugees are also suspicious of the government-sponsored camp and its biometric security system, which they feel could easily be used to curtail their movement as they continue to seek asylum.