Sentence examples for were curbed from inspiring English sources

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were curbed

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To check, restrain or control.

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Civil liberties were curbed, and the press was gagged.

They were curbed in their movements and in any political activity.

Civil liberties were curbed and governments reverted to cold war paranoia.

Ferguson's careful plan had made sense until then, especially in a first half where Porto were curbed and United scored.

But the excesses of earlier days were curbed when gay men started dying from AIDS in the 1980's.

Silenced last weekend in Philadelphia's bandbox, they returned to their spacious stadium and were curbed five more times.

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Free speech is curbed.

Entrepreneurs' initiative is curbed.

Should capital flows be curbed?

Should their excesses therefore be curbed?

Immigration via marriage will be curbed.

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