Sentence examples for were curtailing from inspiring English sources

The airline said fears of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which is spreading in Hong Kong and southern China, were curtailing traffic to those parts of Asia.

Thomas A. Scully, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said he was disappointed that H.M.O.'s were curtailing their participation in the program.

This week, representatives of pilots and manufacturers of private planes pleaded for a meeting with Bush administration officials, arguing that the continued limits were curtailing their livelihoods and that law enforcement officials did not understand their plight.

At least some American intelligence analysts appear to have shared their British colleagues' opinion that Iraq represented a significant but manageable threat, and that the U.N.'s economic sanctions were curtailing Saddam's weapons programs.

More evidence emerged on Tuesday that the situation in Syria was deteriorating, a day after the United Nations and the European Union announced they were curtailing activities and pulling staff members out of Damascus, the capital.

He said he expected to learn which borrowers were voluntarily paying down their debt, which were taking on new debt, and to what extent existing borrowers were curtailing balances by paying more than the minimum.

They were curtailed even further after it.

Building projects were curtailed as a result.

Piano lessons, though, were curtailed through lack of money.

Early in 1999, Mr. Dorney's duties were curtailed.

Livestock movements were curtailed and grazing lands bisected, with some water resources becoming inaccessible.