Sentence examples for so curtailed from inspiring English sources
Many sessions are so curtailed that critics have dubbed this "the 15-minute parliament".Even so something is afoot.
In a country where women's rights are so curtailed, Daoud's lecture amounted to a manifesto of liberation.
One would move up the date of her wedding; a law-school student thought he would take his wife on as long a trip as they could manage in so curtailed a period.
So curtailed is some contemporary children's freedom that according to the survey of 2,000 children and 2,000 parents, a third of six to 15-year-olds had never climbed a tree or made a den.
During the Iraq war protest on the East Side in February 2003, when more than 350 people were arrested, the movements of demonstrators were so narrowly circumscribed, and access to the event so curtailed, that matters became more chaotic than they might otherwise have been.
That's not to say they don't exist (there is a festishist for every fetish) but having one's sexual pleasure so curtailed seems to be a particularly male preserve: the fetish functions by denying something that came with such physiological and psychosocial ease to so many men.
One of these is the primacy of the play - "The play's the thing!" Another is a certain generational solidarity; an understanding that, for years, the private lives of a great many of their number were criminalised and, after being decriminalised, were so curtailed by disapproval as scarcely to register the change.
His disdain for reenacting the Glass-Steagall Act, which once made the merging of commercial and investment banking operations illegal and so curtailed the too-big-to-fail status of the largest banks, tells you all you need to know.
This is an important finding, which bears on their hypothesis that shortening of the PSM is a major step in that brings retinoic acid to tailbud and so curtails body axis elongation.
I protest that no one had told me the interview would be so dramatically curtailed.
Now that foreign holidays are so greatly curtailed, bathing is likely to assume a much greater popularity than has hitherto been the case.
