Sentence examples for curtail traffic from inspiring English sources

He exacerbated the problem by removing the western extension of the congestion zone and by reducing road capacity in central London by 25% on key routes through the introduction of cycle superhighways without taking action to curtail traffic in central London.

Earlier this month, in what may be one of the last chances to bring EU law to bear on the issue, the high court ruled that the government had knowingly failed to draw up plans to bring it within legal limits and there must be immediate action, even if that means drastic measures to curtail traffic.

The goal of prohibiting sex-for-money is to reduce the demand, and thus curtail trafficking if not stamp it out entirely.

Like General Dallaire, he and several other officials at new United Nations programs were in New York to look for ways to curtail trafficking in the kind of guns that most easily fall into young hands.

With khat already outlawed in many European countries, Canada, and the US, the international community can exert joint pressure on the UK to ban the substance, in part to attempt to curtail trafficking hubs that ultimately wind up sending more product elsewhere.

Now, the nuclear disaster in Japan is curtailing traffic in one of their biggest and most lucrative markets.

And prospects for curtailing traffic congestion are further dimmed by the Bush administration's denial of any legitimate national interest in energy conservation.

The airline said fears of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which is spreading in Hong Kong and southern China, were curtailing traffic to those parts of Asia.

That will be unpopular, judging by the public outcry when AT&T recently said it was looking at ways to curtail data traffic.

The legal basis for these arrests and negotiations is a 1970 UNESCO convention in which the participating countries agreed to coöperate in efforts to curtail illicit traffic in antiquities.

Although the practice of trafficking humans is not new, concerted efforts specifically to curtail human trafficking did not emerge until the mid-1990s, when public awareness of the issue also emerged.