Sentence examples for radically curtailing from inspiring English sources

But he also drew a distinction between his campaign for radically curtailing police powers and Caijing's focus on raising government performance.

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.

He has radically curtailed the influence of the military, which had hindered reforms, fearing it would lose its political role.

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.

Unlike the 1994 Contract with America, which in substance was not nearly as ideological as people thought, and unlike Bush's compassionate conservatism, which was sold as a rejection of anti-government philosophy, the Roadmap was a comprehensive plan to reduce the welfare state and radically curtail the government's role in protecting citizens from life's misfortunes.

And so (if you're not already aware), the fact that the Conservative government is currently trying to pass a new law intended to radically curtail the activities of trade unions probably won't come as a shock.

Museums have responded with new buildings, blockbuster exhibits, some innovative educational programs, and marketing, but nonetheless the numbers reveal increasing costs, decreasing visitation, and subsidy and philanthropy radically curtailed by the global financial crises and other pressing social needs.

The referendum proposes to radically alter that system, eliminating the position of Prime Minister, drastically curtailing the powers of parliament, scaling back the independence of the judiciary, and vesting sweeping powers in the Presidency.

The image was that of a sentimental, curtailed Beethoven, radically different from the Promethean giant who rose up soon after the real man's death, but perfectly understandable within the surroundings of the teachers and contemporaries represented in another concert.

Curtailing that terror is essential.

Not curtailing it".