Sentence examples for thus curtailing from inspiring English sources

Safonoff took her side and banned Scriabin's works during his tenure, thus curtailing the composer's success in America.

Having championed legislation last year to fix election dates at four-year intervals, thus curtailing the ability of future governments to call a vote when victory seemed most assured, Mr Harper is now about to ignore his own law and announce a general election within days.

We challenge that premise suggesting a selective retention approach for operational data thus curtailing the size of databases and warehouses without losing content and information value.

In this study, the effectiveness of ECC in preventing the penetration of light and thus curtailing the re-emergence of bamboo was investigated.

Although other adjustments and attempts at re-allocating water might be undertaken, basin managers are often unable to recognise, accommodate or transcend the irrigation focus that this approach generates thus curtailing the efficacy of re-allocation efforts.

Individual bacterial and archaeal cellular lineages would emerge when gene sampling yielded selectively advantageous combinations with tighter membranes, thus, curtailing HGT.

Political freedoms in Portugal were thus curtailed, military police repressed dissidents, and attention was concentrated on economic recovery.

The goal of prohibiting sex-for-money is to reduce the demand, and thus curtail trafficking if not stamp it out entirely.

By law it can only tackle wayward individuals, not systemic failings, and can thus curtail but not prevent the abuses it is eventually called on to judge.

Local landowners, whose right to draw water was thus curtailed, appealed against the consequences of this protection all the way to the Supreme Court, but in 1976 they lost and the pupfish survived.

However, the recalcitrant lignin layer conceals the cellulose component in the OPF and thus, curtails the conversion of cellulose to the value-added chemicals.