Sentence examples for designed to curtail from inspiring English sources

Not long after he joined the organization, von Bismarck began working on campaigns designed to curtail deforestation.

It was designed to curtail tax evasion by requiring businesses to report payments of $600 or more a year to any vendor.

These have ranged from instructing banks to extend fewer loans to moves designed to curtail the sharp price rises seen in much of the country's property sector.

Ostensibly designed to curtail human smuggling, this move really seems to be a response to an electorate that is threatening to end Gillard's tenure at the next election.

The deals were designed to curtail Tehran's cyclical seizure of Americans, which had been a problem for both Bush Administrations, too.

Ironically, the old Metroland dream of semi-rural living exists here mainly because of the green belt – the ring of protected countryside around London designed to curtail urban sprawl.

Under a phony guise of protecting the health and safety of women, states with Republican governors and state legislatures have been keeping busy enacting one burdensome scheme after another designed to radically curtail access to safe and legal abortion care.

Our robust program in ambulatory care, designed to significantly curtail the time children spend in hospital, was largely enabled by her drive to meet the needs of children and families in treatment.

Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner have introduced a new bill, called the Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act (USA FREEDOM Act), designed to dramatically curtail the ability of the NSA to collect information on the average United States citizen.

In 2012, in Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Justice Alito wrote, in a majority opinion, that unions should have let members opt out of emergency fundraising efforts to defeat a state law designed partly to curtail public pensions.

For decades the CDC has provided one of the few US governmental oversights of the cruise industry, developing and attempting to implement a comprehensive sanitation program designed primarily to curtail and, ideally, eliminate the spread of gastrointestinal diseases like the Norovirus.