Other laws curbed immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

The advocates say that the law, the nation's toughest, has curbed the abusive practices of rental companies.

He favors strict laws to curb the sale and possession of handguns, including licensing and registration firearms.

The Government had expected that a 1986 law penalizing employers who hire illegal aliens would curb illegal immigration.

The new laws curbed strikes and weakened the power of union leaders, who tended to be more militant than the rank and file.

That does not mean that such laws curb speech uniformly across Europe.

One Hong Kong factory manager who has commuted to China since 1993 predicts the new laws will not curb the problem.

A 1949 law curbed this importation and led to the creation of many new comic strip magazines during the 1950's.

Communities that pass laws to curb secondhand smoke get a big payoff a drop in heart attacks.

Now, two large studies suggest that communities that pass laws to curb secondhand smoke get a big payoff a drop in heart attacks.