Sentence examples for curtailed ability from inspiring English sources

Our results indicate that the metabolic activity improved with short-term adaptation, despite the curtailed ability to reproduce.

Because of that, he has played only four games since returning Aug. 21, and played games on consecutive days only one time, which has severely curtailed his ability to reacquire his timing and ability to see pitches at the plate.

Stoneridge Inv Partners LLC v Scientific-Atlanta curtailed the ability of plaintiffs to sue peripheral players even though they had deep pockets.

Her celebrity has curtailed her ability to talk it through with other people – because what happened is too traumatic for her to bear it being treated as gossip.

But China, India and other rising powers seem to believe that the made-in-America crisis has curtailed the ability of the United States to set the agenda.

Ray's shyness had curtailed his ability to meet girls in high school and college, but now his fierce intensity seemed to attract them.

It dissolved private organizations of all kinds and severely curtailed the ability of churches to perform their spiritual and educational tasks.

The system has been trialled in grants provided by the Department for Communities and Local Government and ministers said it had not curtailed the ability of charities such as Shelter from lobbying on housing legislation.

Most of the several thousand who had been here during the last century left when South Korea, ever wary of its neighbor's designs, curtailed their ability to do business.

Collapsing oil prices have sharply curtailed his ability to buy public sympathies, and Barack Obama's election has removed the United States as a convenient foe to be berated as needed to energize his base.

Arcade blames ageism as well as political difference for many New York gays' rejection of Crisp but also suggests that his successful self-fashioning curtailed his ability to engage with a radically changing society.