Similar words: perturbing, disturbing, disturbingly, turbine, wind turbine, absorbing, harbinger, turbid. Meaning: [kɜːb] n. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
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1. Police are looking for ways of curbing the traffic in guns.
2. There were streets and curbing and sidewalks and light poles and nothing else.
3. For a government intent on curbing the growth of public spending, social security presented a large target.
4. The government is introducing new measures aimed at curbing inflation.
5. Republicans eager to take credit for curbing illegal immigration wanted the over-all bill to proceed, without the education provision if necessary.
6. The Government is to reintroduce a bill curbing the right to jury trial, which has twice been thrown out by peers.
7. The president said curbing the addiction level would save money and prolong lives.
8. A shift of power curbing the influence of town halls would spark a storm of protest around the country.
9. Its 495-326 vote had the effect of curbing Mr Yeltsin's authority and cancelling his plans for an April referendum.
10. Here the aims were three-fold: curbing expenditure, raising standards and giving greater emphasis to health promotion and illness prevention.
11. The nations are demanding compensation for their curbing of forest exploitation by cattle ranching and logging.
12. Perhaps, then, there is a public interest in curbing the study of economics.
13. Your assignment: Curbing crime and helping people get out of poverty.
14. All are aimed at curbing violence committed by and against youths,(sentencedict.com) he said.
15. Cleaning up city air is also easier than curbing output of carbon dioxide, a gas thought to cause climate change.
16. This advertising aimed at curbing the spread of AIDS.
17. A range of policies have been introduced aimed at curbing inflation.
18. More than 160 nations signed the framework treaty, which commits governments to curbing emissions of greenhouse gases.
19. The high mortality rates could simply be seen as nature playing its part in curbing hare numbers.
20. Loan restrictions have helped cut the inflation rate in part by curbing money supply.
21. It was one of man's more successful attempts at curbing the forces of nature.
22. Regional policies designed to promote employment sought to maintain population levels in the less prosperous areas by curbing voluntary out-migration.
23. About £3 billion went on reducing pollution caused by all kinds of waste and £2.4 billion on curbing air pollution.
24. Industry bosses were rumoured to be reconsidering their plans, possibly curbing the increases to 10%.
25. From the mid-1970s successive governments attempted to alleviate the crisis by curbing public expenditure.
26. Nuclear power makes a valuable contribution to the environment by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.
27. An agreement is expected to send bond yields lower by curbing the supply of securities the Treasury sells to finance annual deficits.
28. But it is surely not hard to see that consumer choice is an inadequate means of curbing corporate power.
29. History, indeed, tends to show that public intervention can have the effect of reinforcing rather than curbing market excesses.
30. I am increasingly convinced that a comprehensive test ban would be a big step to take in curbing proliferation.
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