Curbing Sentence Examples

She shoved the book back into its place and gave the shelf a last swipe, curbing her tongue as she dismounted the chair.

Then you can attempt to cut the crap without directly curbing the freedom of the press.

The legislation is a useful step in protecting SSNs and curbing identity theft.

While strides have been made curbing pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide gas emissions remain the greatest threat in terms of its potential to aid global warming.

This will go a long way toward curbing inappropriate chewing and other mischief.

Those who feel the ' violent anarchists ' are curbing their successes should maybe look at how successful their own tactics are.

Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.

It is believed Mr Blair will outline key future policies aimed at curbing the emission of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

This risks undoing much of the good work that has been achieved in recent years in curbing state subsidies.

James Callaghan for opposing laws curbing Trade Union power in 1968, as Britain stared into the industrial relations abyss that became the Seventies?

Curbing violence, in the media and in real life, can only lead to a better world for everyone, especially the next generation.

Of course, general eating tips like portion control, choosing low-fat foods, curbing calories and eating five small meals a day may promote your diet success, as well.

Soon, however, life interferes, and we slide back into the ritual of fast food and quick, appetite curbing snacks.

It is Dr. Atkins' theory that most people have the best chance of losing a significant amount of weight quickly by curbing their carbohydrate intake.

You will likely feel sated longer, curbing your urge to snack between meals.

One of Philip's ideals was the curbing of colonial "aggression" by the creation of a belt of native states around Cape Colony.

The evil rose to alarming proportions during Grant's presidency, partly because of the immense extension of the civil service, partly because of the growing tendency to alliance between spoilsmen and the persons benefited by protective tariffs, and partly because the public attention was still so much absorbed in Southern affairs that little energy was left for curbing rascality in the North.

To the older and more luxurious lyrics, as reprinted in 1842, Tennyson did not spare the curbing and pruning hand, and in some cases went too far in restraining the wanton spirit of beauty in its youthful impulse.

His lectures and conversation classes were extraordinarily good, possessing as he did the rare gift of kindling the enthusiasm without curbing the individuality of his pupils.

Mehemet Ali was fully conscious that the empire which he had so laboriously built up might at any time have to be defended by force of arms against his master Sultan Mahmud II., whose whole policy had been directed to curbing the power of his too ambitious valis, and who was under tha influence of the personal enemies of the pasha of Egypt, notably of Khosrev, the grand vizier, who had never forgiven his humiliation in Egypt in 1803.

From that moment the ducal power gained strength in Brittany and succeeded in curbing the feudal nobles.

The action of this bridge resembles the magnetic shunt in its effect on the received signals, as the direction of the winding is the same throughout its length, and thus the full inductive action is produced for curbing purposes.