| Here the doctor is faced with the choice of curtailing the consultation or of reducing the time available for the next patient. |
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| The result is a dramatic decrease in the money supply, dramatically curtailing growth. |
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| The tax figures suggest that companies whose fortunes are tied to the slowing world economy are cutting jobs and curtailing staff bonus payments. |
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| Airlines are curtailing flight schedules and laying off staff while the planes are travelling at about half capacity. |
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| Surgeons and obstetricians are leaving or curtailing their practices, fleeing the increasingly high cost of malpractice insurance. |
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| However, you can significantly reduce the amount of duty you pay by curtailing your urge to trade. |
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| He said it had been proven many times that curtailing nightclub opening times did not reduce public order offences. |
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| At what point are we hurting ourselves and curtailing progress when we embargo publications in the name of security? |
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| But the desire for all this ephemeral and disposable tat could be avoided, claim the critics, by curtailing or even banning advertising aimed directly at children. |
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| Most recipes involve fresh fruit and wardens at some prisons have went so far as to ban fruit from prisoners' meals in hopes of curtailing production. |
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| Airmanship and education are evidently not effective in curtailing accidents of this type. |
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| The majority had to severely restrict their lives by changing or abandoning work, curtailing all social activities, and becoming virtual recluses. |
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| Similarly, economic equality requires curtailing individual liberty. |
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| For them to say that we have been curtailing debate is an absolute fallacy. |
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| What no one debated at the time were the implications of closing ancient public highways and curtailing public access and democratic protest. |
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| Other species, when their circumstances improve, react by raising their reproductive rate, not curtailing it. |
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| He added any new action would be limited to curtailing extracurricular services and the resumption of a full strike would only be considered as a last resort. |
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| This avoids the danger of undermining the separation principle or curtailing artistic or journalistic freedom. |
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| I really do believe we ought to take a very serious look, collectively, at curtailing that practice. |
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| By curtailing the autonomy of the self-determining individual, authoritarian public health policies infantilise society, weaken democracy and diminish humanity. |
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| Big savings can be made by curtailing impulse buying and tracking every expense and interest rate charge, creating a budget plan and sticking to it. |
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| In the context of meetings, calling an anonymous straw vote is a standard way of curtailing discussion. |
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| To finance this work he economized, curtailing the privileges of chiefs' estates and thus coming into conflict with his brother Henry. |
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| They say there's no evidence that native reserves were revoked to achieve such a purpose, and no evidence of suppressing or curtailing Aboriginal customs and rites. |
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| David Cameron has given Michael Gove the task of scrapping the Human Rights Act and curtailing the role of the European court of human rights. |
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| Awareness and interest in curtailing excessive salt use has only recently surfaced, largely because of other issues in the spotlight. |
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| By doing so, they are curtailing managers' ability to adopt a changed environment and to adjust to the new proposed model. |
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| For their part, parents may be less tolerant of these same behaviours in their child, knowing that they are responsible for curtailing them on their child's behalf. |
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| The acts were widely opposed, driving neutral parties into support of the Patriots and curtailing Loyalist sentiment. |
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| The government had to adopt some measure to increase revenue, such as selling offices, as well as curtailing its spending on some items. |
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| Access of the country's products to regional and international markets is limited by the high transport cost, thus curtailing the benefits that the economy could derive from trade liberalization. |
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| The closure of the nation's air lanes after the terrorist attacks, curtailing flights around the world, caused immediate and unplanned declines in revenue. |
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| The country has also been in and out of recession for the past three years. For some months now, companies have been battening down the hatches everywhere, curtailing investment, slashing costs and reining back marketing. |
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| Along with my Group I find it shocking that in this House a whole lot of ultraconservative amendments, aimed at curtailing women's rights, have been tabled to Mrs Uca's excellent and comprehensive report. |
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| To feel comfortable curtailing unconventional policy, central banks must make sure that the probabilities of nasty tail risks themselves have fallen. |
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| At the same time, rising interest rates started to affect monetary developments over the course of the year, although largely through substitution among the components of M3 rather than by curtailing overall M3 growth. |
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| We must, at the same time, overcome difficulties to ensure that crossborder crime is tackled without curtailing the freedoms and legal rights of individuals and economic operators. |
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| The intention is to simplify procedures for seeking authorisations by doing away with information requirements and by curtailing the scope of conformity controls. |
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| Women on a low carbohydrate diets who are curtailing their intake of fortified grains and cereals may not be getting essential vitamins and minerals, such as folic acid, which are necessary for health and well-being. |
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| Special attention must be paid to curtailing the influence of violent extremists, undermining their false narrative, isolating them from the people they pretend to serve and disrupting their misuse of the internet. |
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| It will more likely mean that researchers will be forced to be more selective in the use of their financial resources, thereby curtailing their access to copyright material and affecting the quality of their work. |
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| The Service claimed success in curtailing the activities in Canada of a number of foreign intelligence services through continual efforts at forging constructive liaison relationships. |
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| In fact, a census would be the only tool making it possible to continue to meet the needs of the Sahwaris while curtailing the misappropriation of assistance. |
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| Diktats by religious or rural bodies curtailing freedom of women or gender-biased directives over usage of mobile phones etc. |
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| That production line has been temporarily taken out of service, curtailing production of the intermediate steel material used to produce atomized steel powder product. |
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| At Monaco, where his father had won five times in the 1960s, he led until his engine failed, curtailing his race and allowing Olivier Panis to take his only Formula One win. |
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| Curtailing all shopping and financially lucrative opportunities would be obviously counterproductive. |
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| Curtailing innocent kids' rights to go where they've no business and are universally unwelcome is a small price to pay for some peace. |
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