curb造句
61 There was at that time little public pressure to curb immigration.
62 City officials were hoping the name change would help curb the prostitution which festered in the area during the 1970s.
63 The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony.
64 On signal-bearing computer leads, twisted-wire coaxial cables curb some types of interference.
65 An understanding between the two governments could curb the flow of funds.
66 But when bills are introduced in Congress to help curb the epidemic of corporate crime, there is an eerie silence.
67 When they stood at the curb to cross the road her back ached for the support of his hand in its pit.
68 It took some time for their masters to curb them.
69 Firm and resolute, she refused Alexander entry to the house, forcing him to pick my sister up at the curb.
70 He will have to curb his natural candour, for fear of upsetting the markets.
71 You curb your spontaneity in an effort to behave in an acceptable fashion.
72 Children should never realize that they are on a curb or under its direction.
73 Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice?
74 You know the drill: cut the grass; bag the clippings; haul them to the curb for pickup.
75 He was looking over new titles in the window when Fancy Skinner got out of her car at the curb.
76 Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients.
77 None of the world's poor countries can afford to curb industrial development.
78 However, codes of practice may yet be introduced that curb the distasteful excesses of Rag.
79 One might have thought that this was the sort of heavy-handed executive action which the Constitutional Court was in business to curb.
80 But this week, you should try to curb your impatience with those who are slack in their work.
81 The threat follows frustration at the lack of success of voluntary agreements to curb abstractions from the rivers.
82 The corner was empty and, as far as he could tell, so were the parked cars along the curb.
83 In their efforts to curb immorality purists carefully distanced themselves from a world view totally determined by heredity.
84 Right-wing politicians have called for a tight curb on immigration.
85 Stepping off the curb was all but impossible without hip-waders.
86 The home-help walked down the road towards Marie, wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb.
87 A successful cross required the pedestrian to be already perched at the curb when the light changed.
88 War criminals kept from trial, page 8 Labour loses final bid to curb donations.
89 In five hours she'd be marking Miguel O'Brien - a gnat trying to curb an elephant.
90 To curb his anxiety Hencke was back waiting on the comer near the embassy shortly after eleven a.m.
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