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At the C.I.A., where Addington spent two years, he focussed on curtailing the ability of Congress to interfere in intelligence gathering.
The conflict soured further when Mr. Adelson helped finance a campaign in Nevada to pass legislation curtailing the ability of labor unions to automatically deduct money from members to finance political activities.
In addition to the new rules drastically curtailing the ability of governors to expand local coverage by obtaining waivers from the federal government, the president has threatened a veto of Congressional efforts to fund a more robust version of the overall program.
Having championed legislation last year to fix election dates at four-year intervals, thus curtailing the ability of future governments to call a vote when victory seemed most assured, Mr Harper is now about to ignore his own law and announce a general election within days.
To be clear, Shelby County officials and the team of ideologically driven legal advisors behind them say they have no interest in curtailing the ability of the state's growing black and Latino populations to vote.
The new government is likely to curtail the ability of Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, to pursue market reforms.
Stoneridge Inv Partners LLC v Scientific-Atlanta curtailed the ability of plaintiffs to sue peripheral players even though they had deep pockets.
But China, India and other rising powers seem to believe that the made-in-America crisis has curtailed the ability of the United States to set the agenda.
To curtail the ability of civil society to effectively monitor the present elections, the Ethiopian authorities have over the last two years introduced a raft of restrictive measures.
We need to address gun control, which would help to curtail the ability of such tortured souls to ruin the lives of others and themselves.
It is a brazen attempt to further curtail the ability of the opposition – a crucial linchpin in a democracy – to function.
