Sentence examples for curtailed effort from inspiring English sources

The Great Depression of the 1930s made revision slow, and World War II curtailed effort in the 1940s.

The offensive has severely curtailed efforts by NATO and the government to expand their control from towns into the countryside.

On Tuesday the Crown Publishers imprint of Random House said that it had acquired a memoir from Mr. Robertson, - one that he plans to write himself after a few curtailed efforts at collaborating on a biography with other writers and journalists.

Because if he couldn't answer that, what was he creating, if not more fuel for his pyre of curtailed efforts and unsatisfied aspirations?

No Boat Race took place in 1855 – severe frost had caused both the Thames (from Oxford to Henley) and the River Cam to freeze, and heavy snow curtailed efforts to practice for the race.

Complexities inherent in the identification of candidate technologies and the specific application of disinvestment criteria have curtailed efforts to establish clear procedures that may engender change and withstand political challenge.

But advocates of abortion rights said the decision, if upheld, could seriously curtail efforts by federal prosecutors to impose criminal and civil penalties on protesters who seek to intimidate users of abortion clinics.

For Wall Street, the skirmish has inadvertently brought fresh and unwelcome attention to the investor arbitration process and its flaws, and could severely curtail efforts by investors hurt by widespread problems, including claims of being marketed unsuitable investments by brokers who gave a deceptive sales pitch.

And UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said travel restrictions will severely curtail efforts to beat Ebola.

The amendment, added with no warning, threatened to curtail efforts to pass the life-saving bill and is an ugly example of how politics often come before people.

The 70-year-old former Alabama senator has already set the Justice Department on a new path by targeting immigrants, reining in police department reform efforts and curtailing efforts to protect voting rights.