Sentence examples for curtailed state from inspiring English sources

But listening to the interview, which was broadcast on Kermode and Mayo's Film Review in its unedited and curtailed state last Friday, it's still hard to see what prompted her to pull the plug.

Faced with a ballooning budget deficit, Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco announced today that he had curtailed state spending by nearly $500 million and that an audit of last year's budget had identified an additional surplus of $220 million.

EBay, the auction giant, indicated it could support some sort of minimal regulation if it curtailed states' rights to impose a patchwork of differing rules.

The Hispanic groups want to "demilitarize" the southwest border and curtail state and local enforcement of immigration laws.

Mr. McCain also told Mr. Spitzer he was confident a "majority of U.S. senators" would oppose legislative efforts to curtail state investigations into Wall Street.

Representative Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, said that other provisions of the Republican bill would curtail state flexibility and reduce access to education and training for welfare recipients.

Shas, the biggest ultra-Orthodox party, may lose its status as the third-largest party to Shinui, a centrist faction seeking to curtail state subsidies to the religious.

"Bad facts make bad law," she said, meaning that when slavery, a bad cause, was linked with states' sovereignty, a good cause, the nation did too much to curtail state's rights.

They said it did not do enough to curtail states' use of creative accounting techniques in Medicaid.

Western powers have been largely able to curtail state-sponsors of terrorism.

With endowments in the doldrums and government funding curtailed at state universities, colleges both public and private are stepping up efforts to tap parents of current students for donations in ways previously reserved for graduates established in careers.