curtailment

Examples of curtailing

curtailing

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

Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
Faced with this reality, families made the decision to give individual choice priority over social norms and ended up curtailing their fertility.
From the perspective of evolutionary history, schizophrenia would then be a benign trait, neither enhancing nor curtailing survival to reproduction.
The state's authoritarian and expansionist project extended to curtailing the independence of the judiciary, strengthening the military, and concentrating power in the executive.
The curtailing of work-based social networks may be problematic, particularly where these have formed the basis of friendship groups.
Curtailing wage costs was regarded as the prime effective instrument for stimulating employment.
The fishery could earn additional economic rents by curtailing both excessive fishing effort and exploitation rates.
In addition, expenditure cutting is highly controversial if it involves curtailing necessary social programs and transfers.
It operates at a higher level, curtailing the excesses of the first-order desires for benefits.
The means for avoiding communal impoverishment due to escalating healthcare expenditure need not be confined, then, to curtailing demand in an effort to suppress prices.
Thus, seed-associated mycoflora have a significant effect in curtailing the hydrated lifespan of recalcitrant seeds.
It can also be used to identify cost driving factors and to inform decisions for curtailing costs.
On the other hand, women may continue to work without curtailing their fertility.
On the other hand, all referenda against propositions aimed at curtailing social security were rejected.
The post-invasion period after 1634 also saw the lapsing of almsgiving and a temporary end to the collection, curtailing a trend towards more organized, assessed collection.
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