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Example sentences for: curb

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He touted the television V-chip; praised the Kennedy-Kassebaum law (an ultra-therapeutic law that guarantees portability of insurance but places no ceiling on the rates insurers can charge); applauded the ban on "assault" rifles; and bragged about the new FDA regulations that curb the advertising and sale of cigarettes to children.
Health advocates at the National Institutes of Health , which sponsored the trial, predicted that the inexpensive medicine, Nevirapine, will curb infection rates in poor countries.
The development of a vaccine or other preventive biomedical intervention therefore bears the greatest hope to curb the rampant HIV epidemic [2].
In 1897, in an attempt to curb the worst excesses of the Big Easy, Alderman Sidney Story created a city ordinance outlawing prostitution everywhere in the city except for a small, specific area just beyond the French Quarter, where it could be contained and controlled.
A serious effort to curb E. coli would focus on the cattle rather than on the processing of their meat.