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The District approved hundreds of temporary outdoor dining permits last year that allowed businesses to take advantage of unused sidewalk space, alleys and parking lanes — generating a lifeline as indoor dining was shut down or drastically curtailed.

Rail at the bigots in Washington on TV seeking to curtail equality?

With the World Cup fast approaching, Brazil is attempting to curtail its controversial soccer fan clubs.

But it is also time to curtail the demand for ivory in Asia.

The promises of benefit are false, and government action to curtail this kind of fraud is long overdue.

Bill de Blasio successfully campaigned for mayor on the promise to curtail it.

Thereafter severe repressive measures were taken to curtail its power.

The narrator dwelt on the flirtation lovingly, and at great length, but here we are obliged to curtail it.

The lords accepted the colonists' petition, and gave forth that they did not intend to curtail their liberties.

The nobles and the clergy adhered tenaciously to their privileges, and the Court would curtail none of its unnecessary expenses.

Hence anything which will curtail our sufferings and add to our pleasures or our powers, should be sought as the highest good.