Sentence examples for try and curtail from inspiring English sources

Federal and state initiatives, however, are currently underway to try and curtail the trade in such products, according to IFAW and WCS.

The police have tried to ban Critical Mass before but were blocked in the House of Lords, and they should have known better than to try and curtail the event on Friday.

TechCrunch: It seems that wealth technology companies and their workers, instead of donating money to try and curtail the impact of money, could instead — and I'm not advocating for this — deploy capital directly to the capitol, collecting an essentially guaranteed return for a modest cost?

Trying to curtail the costs of service provision is one measure by which one could try and curtail the population cost.

That success should be a cause of great celebration, not something to curse and try to curtail.

Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and a fierce critic of what he sees as excessive government intrusion, said he would take up the mantle of the House reformers and try to curtail N.S.A. surveillance on any legislation he could.

He also tried to break collusive ties between politics and big businesses and tried to curtail the power of big and conservative newspapers.

The stockpiling is also used to try to curtail food inflation and steady its domestic industry.

It's not a new argument in California's San Francisco Bay, where protesters have blockaded Google's commuter buses and local activists try to curtail new development for tech company headquarters.

Steve Redgrave famously tried and failed to curtail his magnificent obsession and Greg Searle is now following in his wake.

We have to try to curtail that as much as we can and as best we can.