Representatives of the Russian government and the Arab League met with political opponents of Mr. Assad, while Turkey, once a close ally of Syria, scrapped a plan to explore for oil in Syria and threatened to curtail its provision of electricity.
The Israeli leader said the deal should have included a provision to curtail Iranian efforts to develop an international ballistic missile.
Trying to curtail the costs of service provision is one measure by which one could try and curtail the population cost.
Among its provisions was an effort to curtail often-violent efforts to prevent black people from casting votes in elections.
The global economic crisis has political and business leaders thinking defensively increasing trade protection, pushing "buy American" provisions in major legislation, attempting to curtail the use of H-1B visas, the documents that allow highly skilled nonimmigrant workers into the country.
Most notably, the Republicans approved a provision strongly desired by the Bush administration to curtail the civil service protections of many of the 170,000 employees who would be moved into the department.
He joined with other conservatives as well as the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday in announcing the creation of the coalition, which hopes to curtail some of the law's more sweeping law-enforcement provisions.
Typically, concerned citizens try to exercise some direct level of control by resorting to lawsuits, sometimes under archaic provisions of a nuisance law, and referendum mechanisms to curtail or stop such operation.
Though the legislation was originally designed to curtail insider trading in Congress, lawmakers stripped the bill down, removing provisions to add new powers for prosecutors, as well as a rule for Wall Street "political intelligence" firms to register as lobbyists.
Among the most controversial elements built into patent legislation are provisions related to compulsory-licensing and those that aim to curtail the practice of 'ever-greening', which allows companies to collect monopoly rents by patenting minor changes to a given drug whose patent life is about to expire.
Wyden later learned that, while he and Obama were fighting to curtail Section 215, the N.S.A.'s lawyers were secretly arguing before the FISA court that the provision should allow the N.S.A. to legally collect the phone records of all Americans.
