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Example sentences for: curb

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Mark Shields ( NewsHour ) was the first of many weekend warriors to repeat the stock formula about how the voters had made this deal with Clinton in 1992: He would curb his sexual desires while in the White House.
A serious effort to curb E. coli would focus on the cattle rather than on the processing of their meat.
For Klein, control is always bad--whether it's the evil health-and-fashion industry dictating our ideas about beauty, or the beleaguered dieter struggling to curb his cravings in a spirit of misguided self-hatred.
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.
But that's just another way of saying Bush would do nothing to curb the big-money influence on politics.