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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.
Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article . Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
Anti-smoking advertising is only one weapon in the fight against tobacco: A proposed settlement being worked on by U.S. cigarette makers and government lawyers will require that the tobacco industry 1) fund smoking-cessation programs for American smokers; 2) commit to reducing teen smoking by 50 percent over the next seven years, failing which it will pay huge penalties; 3) drastically curtail advertising; 4) fund "countermarketing" programs.
The WP says the Supreme Court's campaign contribution ruling "provides some legal ammunition" for efforts to curtail soft money.
And he also addressed Janet Reno's decision to curtail the investigation into his campaign fund-raising.