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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
curtail .
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Examples
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It also means home demand shifted towards lower priced housing, which again curtails investment in home improvement (less flippers) and helps keep prices from bubbling up.
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He said the ban curtails freedom of choice for an age group considered mature enough to make many other important decisions.
Top Bollywood Actor Challenges Mumbai's New Drinking Age Law 2011
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A tariff will create Jobs when it significantly curtails outsouring of production.
Budget Woes, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Damon Moglen with Friends of the Earth said, "the funding cuts and restrictive language in H.R. 1 curtails the EPA's efforts in protecting public health, while ignoring the tax subsidies for the oil and coal industries which could save taxpayers billions of dollars a year."
Rep. John Conyers: Republican Budget Bill Destroys Jobs and Puts Americans at Grave Risk Rep. John Conyers 2011
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Even teachers have to take real jobs in the summer which curtails their time to read ... anyone else who has time off generally only has 2 weeks in a row and if you subtract days wasted, you really only get about 4 good days of 'leave me the hell alone i'm reading' time.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The U.S. Trustee said in a Wednesday filing that the package doesn't meet the standards of a 2005 bankruptcy law that curtails payments to insiders of companies in bankruptcy protection if they're designed "to favor powerful insiders economically."
A&P Bonus Plan Faces Objections Joseph Checkler 2011
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Banning a particular register curtails certain expression.
The Volokh Conspiracy » (Maybe) Racist Vanity Plates and the First Amendment 2010
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He said the ban curtails freedom of choice for an age group considered mature enough to make many other important decisions.
Top Bollywood Actor Challenges Mumbai's New Drinking Age Law 2011
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It promotes the speech of the students but severely curtails the right of the school to expressive association.
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He said the ban curtails freedom of choice for an age group considered mature enough to make many other important decisions.
Top Bollywood Actor Challenges Mumbai's New Drinking Age Law 2011
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