Sentence examples for curtailed work from inspiring English sources

The Port Authority recently curtailed work on the Sept. 11 museum in a bitter dispute with the memorial foundation over responsibility for tens of millions of dollars in construction costs.

The company's many old hands — tenure is expressed in the number of cycle troughs an employee has been through — swung into action, shutting down the costliest of USG's 24 drywall plants and curtailing work at some others.

According to a report by the Interfax news agency, which quoted officials close to the investigation but who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, the mine's management did not curtail work in the mine despite the danger that the fire would ignite when it mixed with methane underground.

To increase the profits of the acquired company, the fund may reduce the number of employees, reduce pay levels or curtail work time.

Ill health had curtailed his work in recent years.

An attack of smallpox seriously curtailed his work; the disease later affected his right leg, which was then amputated.

Mrs. Khivazov obtained certification to be a home health aide, but she has curtailed her work recently to spend as much time as possible with her husband.

A separate 2009 law curtailed the work of Ethiopia's leading human rights groups, forcing some to shut down and others to limit their investigations.

The amendment to a bill setting Congress's annual budget called for a 40 percent cut in the ethics office's $1.5 million allotment, which would have severely curtailed its work.

This aspiration to specialise often curtailed time working at district level, "you might want to work in the district hospitals but then at a certain point in time you would want to specialise" (student), and for four participants took priority over a preference for district work (Table  1).

Long before his death, bodily infirmities, increased by his addiction to port, curtailed his working day.