They decided to significantly curb the powers of the president, to a point merely ceremonial.

Other analysts question whether consumer self-interest can significantly curb health care inflation.

The programme was also moved to pre-watershed rather than post, significantly curbing bad language and violence.

So far the limited information available since stock prices fell suggests that consumers have not significantly curbed their spending.

The agreement would significantly curb imports of softwood lumber from Canada, where producers can get it from provincial governments at below-market prices.

Last year's report, for example, called aerial spraying the only way to significantly curb cocaine production.

Patrolling of the seas by aircraft carriers would be curbed significantly, with the Navy becoming more of a reactive force.

Q. Since law enforcement has not significantly curbed the availability of drugs, how can it object to distributing needles?

Seeing red The 2010 target of significantly curbing the global rate of biodiversity loss was agreed at the Johannesburg summit in 2002.

If those agencies were encouraged to confront segregation vigorously, through more systemic investigations of the real-estate industry, for example, then housing discrimination might be curbed significantly, many officials say.