Sentence examples for supposed to curb from inspiring English sources

Curbs on religious activity have stoked further anger and fuelled the radicalism they were supposed to curb.

In the long term new insurance exchanges, due to appear in 2014 and backed up with fines and subsidies, are supposed to curb rising health costs and premiums.

So conservation groups are appalled at recent agreements South Africa reached with China and Vietnam, though they are supposed to curb poaching.

The money bail system is supposed to curb the risk of flight by requiring defendants to post bond in exchange for freedom before trial.

He knows he's supposed to curb the effusions that he suspects may be inappropriate for a man in his position -- but it's clearly a struggle.

I KNOW I'm supposed to curb my dog, but occasionally she goes when I'm not paying attention, and it seems cruel to yank her away.

Rising gas prices are supposed to help curb energy consumption.

President Bush has even succeeded in emasculating the post-Watergate reform that was supposed to help curb Nixonian secrecy, the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

Playoff expansion is supposed to help curb this practice.

Some of the biggest names in Republican and Democratic circles are establishing new groups to collect and spend the unlimited political donations that were supposed to be curbed by the recent campaign finance law.

A weakened currency and rising inflation were supposed to be curbed by a plan announced in 2012 to save $1.23 billion, but this has only been partially implemented (it was a partial lifting of fuel subsidies that triggered protests in September).