curb
Example Sentences
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Slowing population growth thanks to government curbs on temporary immigration numbers also is likely to weigh on economic activity.
Shattering the stillness of a winter morning, the car’s cold-start cycling sounds like someone is docking a PT boat at the curb.
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs said the arrests were part of an operation aimed at curbing illegal immigration and visa abuse.
Developers are racing to beat subsidy deadlines and secure equipment before new curbs on Chinese products kick in.
Authorities in Turkmenistan -- a politically isolated country of seven million people -- have sought to curb desertification through a massive tree-planting campaign.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
