Sentence examples for was not curbed from inspiring English sources

Mr Sikorski had several times threatened to resign if Mr Macierewicz's influence was not curbed.

Instead, calculus flourished on the Continent, where the power of Leibniz's notation was not curbed by Newton's authority.

He warned of food riots in the poorest countries if speculation in food markets was not curbed.

But all have expressed anger at settlement growth, and it remained unclear what they would advise Mr. Abbas if settlement building was not curbed.

However, to date the Westminster government has resisted calls for it to introduce a plastic bag levy, despite Prime Minister David Cameron threatening retailers that he would legislate to tackle the issue if bag use was not curbed.

As little as five and up to 50 leeches at a time were used for patients suffering from various conditions until Pierre Charles Alexander Louis and contemporaries finally questioned the effectiveness of phlebotomy as a cure-all; the practice was not curbed until approximately 100 years later [ 4, 5].

Some pursuit of new revenues wasn't curbed.

The counterargument, of course, is that the "demand side" of the drug market is not curbed.

Australia is on course for a sea level rise of 45cm to 82cm by 2090, if emissions are not curbed.

Mr. Putin suggested that if tensions were not curbed, the government might be forced to adopt restrictions on migrants settling in Moscow, St .Petersburg and other metropolises.

The IPPC concludes there is a 50-50 chance that global temperatures will exceed 4C this century if carbon emissions are not curbed.