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Example sentences for: curtail

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Ireland's British rulers refused to curtail exports of wheat from the country, which could have fed thousands, and heartless absentee British landlords evicted starving tenants.
In 1867, under a compromise designed to curtail home-rule agitation, the Austro-Hungarian empire was established and Hungary was ﬁnally granted its own government, though key ministries were shared with the Austrians.
The New York Times ' top non-local story is a U.N.-commissioned report that holds the U.N. and leading member nations, primarily the U.S., responsible for failing to prevent or curtail the 1994 Rwanda genocide of 800,000.
Following the 1987 market crash, for instance, the NYSE shortened its hours to curtail panic trading.
Hawks deride Clinton for having let squeamish NATO partners such as Italy and Germany curtail the early stages of the war.