The phrase "curtail this problem" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to limit or reduce a problem. Example: The government needs to take immediate action to curtail this problem of rising crime rates.
The recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the jewelry, which cost 25 cents to 75 cents and have been sold in 700,000 vending machines, comes after two earlier recalls of a total of 2.4 million pieces of similar jewelry over the last 10 months failed to curtail the problem.
Hoping to curtail the problem before it grows out of control, the Arlington, Va.-based ITAA recently assembled some of the biggest players in business to form the Coalition on Online Identity Theft.
You can't stop assholes 100% of the time, but you can watch a room, get a sense of who's making people uncomfortable and curtail the problem before it gets out of hand.
While tools are available to identify PIM prescribing and potential strategies exist to curtail the problem, several fundamental issues still exist.
The present paper attempts to define the principle sources and current levels of heavy metal contamination and summarizes the efforts undertaken by the industry to curtail the problem.
With nearly one in every four soldiers identified as having a drinking problem, the Army has most recently tried to take further action to curtail this epidemic.
Mr Wickremesinghe wants to curtail this power by constitutional amendment.
A move is afoot to curtail this privilege.
"The government has to curtail this corruption," he said emphatically.
Several laws have been passed internationally in recent years designed to curtail this practice.
