These criteria are tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, loss of control of drinking, desire to quit, preoccupation with drinking, curtailing of other activities because of drinking, and persistence of drinking in the face of negative consequences.
But to sufficiently insure against the possibility of such a disaster, banks would have to radically curtail their lending, which would presumably mean a radical curtailing of economic activity, etc.
The offer, though seemingly absurd, highlights the challenge of curtailing the activities of extremist groups, which increasingly use public service to boost their appeal.
The act curtails a wide range of activities -- from street demonstrations and ticket scalping to parking in "clearways" and flying in closed airspace -- for the duration of the Games.
Universities have shied away from curtailing the activities of such groups for fear that they might appear to be stifling free speech and freedom of religion.
Senior law-enforcement officials, who worked with Elahi as Chief Minister, claim that he gave clear instructions that significant resources were to be devoted to infiltrating and dismantling terrorist organizations and to monitoring and curtailing the activities of religious leaders believed to have extremist tendencies.
In addition, curtailing the activities of Alternative medical practitioners in the country claiming to have found a cure for HIV/AIDS would be of immense help.
"We're developing technologies like gif crawlers, Vine crawlers, working with Twitter to look to curtail this kind of activity".
"It's a breach of copyright and we would discourage fans from doing it, we're developing technologies like gif crawlers, Vine crawlers, working with Twitter to look to curtail this kind of activity.
"Reports are incorrect that the university has done nothing to curtail the activities of the group of individuals that pose as a 'brotherhood' and mask themselves in the rituals and social benefits of a fraternity, but uphold none of the traditions of scholarship, leadership, and service," Gail Short Hanson, vice president of campus life, said in a statement Thursday.
MOSCOW, Oct. 24 — Russia has opened a diplomatic campaign to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union, proposing to cut the size of the missions sharply and to prohibit the publication of their reports immediately after an election.
