The word "curtails" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to limit or restrict something. Example: The new laws will curtail the power of corporations and protect the rights of employees.
Part of the problem, according to PPIC, is California's high dependency on personal and corporate income tax, a volatile source of revenue that fluctuates with the economy.Reformers have called for a repeal of the state law, passed after a taxpayer revolt in 1978, that severely curtails increases in property taxes, which might bring in more stable revenues.
That restriction is intended as a safeguard against ruinous megalomaniacs, but Hannover 96, a Bundesliga side, believes it curtails investment and stops the league from realising its full potential.Nevertheless, the Bundesliga has displayed a commercial nous not always evident in European football.
Indeed, if anyone curtails this five-year parliament, it is likelier to be Mr Cameron though he is not contemplating such a gamble.
The FRA study curtails its ambitions appropriately, discarding speeds of over 160 mph (258 kph) out of hand, and instead focussing on cheaper, more modest improvements.
Where Ottawa curtails foreign aid, Quebec plans to set up its own international-aid agency.To top it off, Quebec has one of the lowest budget deficits in the OECD.
Japan's pacifist constitution, written by Americans after the country's defeat, severely curtails what the SDF may do.
The state's election-weary voters (this is the fourth statewide ballot in just over two years) will be asked to support Mr Schwarzenegger's complex political-reform agenda.The House of Representatives unexpectedly voted down a measure in the Patriot Act that curtails the FBI's powers to seize the library records of suspected terrorists.
But it needs no crystal ball to know that Whitehall's deepest pigeon hole is reserved for anything that curtails executive powers.
The menopause curtails it, and even before that a woman's fertility falls significantly over the years.
The prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, and his Democratic Party of Japan, which swept to an historic win in the previous election in 2009, seemed to be heading for a heavy defeat.Labour painsMichigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, signed a "right-to-work" bill that curtails the power of unions, the latest such measure in a Midwestern state.
The ubiquity and power of brand advertising curtails choice, she claims; produced cheaply in third-world sweatshops, branded goods displace local alternatives and force a grey cultural homogeneity on the world.Brands have thus become stalking horses for international capitalism.
