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This career was curtailed when he imbibed too much of the local spirit and fell off the stage.

While the early fast-charge from the sister No14 Porsche was curtailed when it was forced to pit with a fuel flow problem and dropped nine minutes.

As its founders point out, a pursuit once enjoyed by Kings and peasants alike was curtailed when Henry VIII imposed a ban in 1538.

The Proceso investigation is based on documents from an initial state-level investigation which was curtailed when federal authorities took over in early October.

The first attempt to convert Pietersen into a bludgeoning No 2 in the World Cup last year was curtailed when he left the tournament for surgery on a hernia.

The discussion in the committee was curtailed when the ranking Republican member, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, invoked a procedural rule to put off the full debate and vote in the committee until its next business meeting on Thursday.

Their plans were curtailed when Mr. Marz accepted an offer to write exclusively for CrossGen Comics.

But Ulrich's dreams of achieving greatness in chemistry are curtailed when his father loses his money in bad investments.

Levin's work plans were curtailed when her son was 11 weeks old and had a seizure following a difficult pregnancy.

Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters.

His collaborations with Swarbrick continued, but were curtailed when the fiddler became seriously ill in 1999, and in 2000 Hulett recorded another solo album, In Sleepy Scotland.