Most of us do not know anyone whose rights have been seriously curtailed.

A falling stock market, for example, could seriously curtail consumption.

In the 1930s, a disease seriously curtailed banana production.

This was, more-or-less, his season of leisure and it had been seriously curtailed.

This seriously curtailed the ability of most Miami to supplement their diet with meat from the hunt.

If cellular phone fraud is to be seriously curtailed, the industry says, it will come from technology as much as police work.

It was a fixture seriously curtailed by the rain, which made a draw a certainty, though they were able to pick up 9 points.

"This could seriously curtail the development efforts in our own area," Ms. Dunn said.

He needed McDeere, but circumstances had worked to seriously curtail his travel plans.

Direct Muscovite rule was not yet established, but the independent republican system was seriously curtailed.