Sentence examples for curtailed but from inspiring English sources
Voters want federal spending curtailed, but jealously guard costly entitlements.
"There are ways it can be curtailed, but that is the starting point.
Broadband local delivery may be curtailed but dial-up modem, leased line and other access systems would still operate".
His activities are curtailed, but he still patrols the house, taking stock of everything he's acquired over the yrs.
Some of the privileges of the church were curtailed, but those that were confirmed left the church essentially independent within its own sphere.
Some extravagances have been curtailed, but no one in the business disputes that Condé still spends far more money than its competitors.
By law it can only tackle wayward individuals, not systemic failings, and can thus curtail but not prevent the abuses it is eventually called on to judge.
The Treasury also announced yesterday that it would curtail, but not discontinue, its program of buying back higher-interest rate debt with 20 or more years to maturity.
A free-trading regime among our allies also counters China's overbearing influence, which Trump claims he wants to curtail but — because he is not a realist — has no responsible idea about how to do it.
Bactericidal activity thus may be useful in the therapy of respiratory tract infections as a means to curtail, but not avoid, the emergence of resistance.
The anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner's 'serious games' concept [ 55] theorises about the complex social realities in which individuals are neither 'autonomous agents' nor stuck in a structure without agency, implying that structures curtail but do not eliminate the possibility to make choices.
