Words similar to curbing

Example sentences for: curbing

How can you use “curbing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But it also urged him to do "some frank talking" to African leaders about reducing bureaucracy, curbing corruption, and expanding privatization.
Any deficit-increasing tax cut would surely prompt the Fed to tighten the money supply, curbing economic growth or even prompting a recession.
Take "saving Medicare," for example, a goal that pols from both parties like to pop into the same sentence with "curbing HMOs."
Let me propose another reference group that the culturati might glorify in the (perhaps vain) hope of curbing spending-mania: happily functioning people.
Our conversation moved from Brill's article to other nonconfidential matters, such as the legal rules curbing what Starr's office can say to reporters, to matters like Bennett's sons, my daughters, mutual acquaintances, and other matters that even so creative a mind as Brill's might have trouble painting as grand jury secrets.