Sentence examples for curtailments from inspiring English sources

The government has already proposed some, though they are not as swingeing as the curtailments imposed by America's reforms of 1996, which imposed a lifetime limit of five years on benefit claims by needy families.

If you think population is "out of control" you might be tempted to agree to such drastic curtailments of liberty.

If it stands, the decision could be one of the biggest judicial curtailments of presidential powers in years.

Therefore, the United States, Japan, and, more recently, Argentina and Chile have enacted laws establishing procedures to permit the formulation and judicial confirmation of reorganization plans, the provisions of which may include elimination of ownership rights and significant curtailments of the rights of secured creditors.

Jeffersonian Republicans vigorously opposed them, however, as drastic curtailments of liberty in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which the other state legislatures either ignored or denounced as subversive.

Talk story about changes, curtailments, labor shortage, etc. due to the war.

Navi Pillay credited Snowden with starting a global debate that has led to calls for the curtailment of state powers to snoop on citizens online and store their data.

The Afghan government has recently passed a bill that will see the curtailment of the country's wedding industry, limiting guest lists to 500 and setting a cap of 400 Afghanis (£4.50) per head on food.

"Tonight's award reflects [Charlie Hebdo's] refusal to accept the curtailment of speech through violence," said PEN president Andrew Solomon at the event.

Six months later Rio Tinto announced the curtailment of its bauxite refinery, and with it more than 1,000 job losses.

"Tonights's award reflects [Charlie Hebdo's] refusal to accept the curtailment of speech through violence.