curtailment

Examples of curtailed

curtailed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

If outlays threaten to exceed the threshold, allotments must be reduced and/or enrollments curtailed unless the cap is expressly overridden by legislative action.
It was curtailed once the money dried up with the phasing out of privatisation and the nation's economic contraction that set in after 1997.
In the absence of partners, older people sometimes found their social networks curtailed.
Certainly, conditionality and, in places, the restriction of aid flows, have curtailed the resources available to those in state power.
An assertive president is likely to have his formal powers curtailed if she were ever to try to use them.
Participants heard how difficult it is to stop a determined thief, which may have curtailed support for policing and obviation.
In practice, the scope that employees have to bargain is severely curtailed by the nature of the labour market.
Once private transport is unavailable, discretionary trips may be curtailed or cease.
The influence of excessively long reading times was curtailed in the following way.
The other main source of food, fishing, was curtailed as a consequence of the cold winters that followed the eruption.
As introns increase in size through the fixation of insertions, selection against deletions may relax leading to curtailed growth of the intron.
In the end the program was neither subjected to full scrutiny, nor was it curtailed.
These deadlines can be extended by one month or curtailed on the grounds of efficiency or urgency. 21.
One reason for its curtailed existence may well have been the practical difficulties involved in sound levels at concerts.
The reforms which began after 1780 curtailed the opportunities for most officials or politicians to establish family fortunes.
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