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But by the year I'm remembering now, which is 1934, that sort of excess gaiety had been curtailed.† (source)
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Enrique says that were he an American citizen, he would want to curtail illegal immigration.† (source)
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They called her a "strong voice in an urban wilderness" and "a radiant beacon, shedding light on the need to curtail continued overdevelopment of our once quaint and tranquil community."† (source)
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My mother's decision to curtail her education was more acceptable to her parents than to her sister; Aunt Martha not only disapproved— my aunt (who is a lovely woman) resented my mother, if only slightly.† (source)
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Saeed and Nadia began to curtail their wanderings to conserve energy, and thus reduce their need for food and drink.† (source)
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It was Will's accident that had curtailed our plans for a life together, after all.† (source)
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Only Florida and Alabama allowed the jury's decision to be overridden by a judge—and Florida later put restrictions on the practice that severely curtailed it.† (source)
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Like animals hiding in camouflage, they curtail their breathing, lower their body temperature, maintain total silence, hold their muscles in check, and block out their portals of awareness.† (source)
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If food had been distributed fairly...if people hadn't panicked...if we'd had good leaders being honest about the need for everyone's cooperation...we could have survived the crisis without curtailing anyone's rights.† (source)
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He felt much healthier in the war, probably due to the forced curtailment of the number of meat courses, he had an enormous stock of sodium-bicarbonate, he had his whiskey in the evening, his twenty-three-year-old mistress was having a baby, as were nearly all the other girls who had started out as milicianas in the July of the year before, and now he came into the room, nodded in answer to Gomez's salute and put out his hand.† (source)
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I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;† (source)
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'Thank you, Annie,' he said from atop his golden glistening wave, and he thought: Bu tyou may have read me wrong, you know, I mean, the situations that lead men into temptation have been severely curtailed up here.† (source)
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It stresses that you should be honest and not suddenly curtail or alter your spending pattern—which is lucky, because it's Suze's birthday on Friday and I've got to get her a present.† (source)
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The Inland Architect, a prominent Chicago journal, reported: "That un-American institution, the trades union, has developed its un-American principle of curtailing or abolishing the personal freedom of the individual in a new direction, that of seeking, as far as possible, to cripple the World's Fair."† (source)
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Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.† (source)
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Even the air systems had been curtailed.† (source)
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