Curb
curb (verb) - control and limit
curb (noun)
greatly curb
drastically curb
acted as a curb on Y
impose a curb on
introduce a curb on
put a curb on
measures to curb
efforts to curb
attempt to curb
try to curb
designed to curb
intended to curb
action top curb
market curbs
curb inflation
serious about curbing Y
strict control of Y to curb X
needs eyes in the back of her head to curb her two-year-old's natural mischief
curb spending programmes
curb government spending
curb on government borrowing
curbing high consumer product prices
regulations to curb Y
a pay curb
do X to help curb Y
needed to curb Y
must learn to curb Z
failed to curb Y
genuine attempts to curb these activities
curb his natural candour
curb his impatience
emergency plans to curb Y
curb speculation
Example sentences:
* "Consider market curbs carefully, warns CP" (newspaper headline)
* "Equestrianism: Action to curb horse abuse" (newspaper headline)
* "The government announced emergency plans to curb the rampant speculation in real estate."
* "Many banks had also suffered from government measures to curb liquidity, including the tightening of reserve and liquidity ratios."
* "Both measures were intended to curb the budget deficit."
* "The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the central bank, had placed severe credit restrictions on imports in an attempt to curb the outflow of hard currency following a sharp deterioration in foreign exchange reserves."
* If the government is serious about curbing high consumer product prices, it needs to overhaul an unfair trading structure involving large retailers and manufacturers and look at hidden costs such as advertising and merchandising expenses that are passed on to shoppers, says a wholesale business spokesman.
* "The new law was designed to curb the rampant inflation."
* "Strict control of the money supply and a curb on government borrowing would squeeze inflation out of the economy."
* "Apart from raising taxes, the Government hopes to be able to curb its spending programmes, and a review is already under way."
* "She needs eyes in the back of her head to curb her two-year-old's natural mischief."
* "The latest attempt is timed with growing popular dissaffection with the government's inability to provide basic services and curb corruption and rising prices."
* "The government, as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme, was seeking to stabilize the economy without shocks and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation."
* "The government is being asked to bring in regulations to curb imports into the EC."
* "Employers, however, have welcomed the 1.5% pay curb, which they have long called for."
* "The Bundesbank is battling to slow the growth of money supply and curb inflation following the higher than expected costs of reunification."
* "In the 18th century the riot was a more effective curb on the government than either the Lords or the House of Commons."
* "She promised she would curb her temper and her excesses and maintain a low profile."
* "Farmers should now leave uncultivated strips of land alongside watercourses acting to help curb over-production of food."
* "They supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest."
* "Although kings made sporadic efforts to reform, to Purge and reorganize, again ultimately only the nineteenth century brought the abundance which permitted a system to organize the state and curb some of the worst excesses."
* "There were genuine attempts to curb these activities but the PLO could do no more than send its security units into the streets to prevent looting."
* The answer is a reform of the US tort system with particular emphasis on the need for proportionate liability and a regulatory curb on unwarranted litigation.
* "Your brother must learn to curb his natural exuberance."
* "Reform is needed to curb the growing violence."
* "Civil war has severely hampered the efforts of relief agencies to curb the ravages of drought and famine which has swept through the small country."
* "He settled down, trying to curb his impatience."
* "He will have to curb his natural candour, for fear of upsetting the markets."
* "Under the last governor, the Bank of Italy failed to curb the politicians' profligacy, but it never gave up trying."
* "The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending."
* "Measures to curb Kurdish insurgency" (newspaper headline)
* The Russian Ministry of Defence is to set up special" ecological units" which will be given" unlimited powers to curb all environmentally destructive activities".
* "The police have added a decoy patrol vehicle to their fleet in a bid to curb speeding motorists.'
