Following a boom fueled by online poker, the recession curbed the betting activity of prospective gamblers.
It comes after Beijing has cut stimulus measures, closed inefficient factories and curbed bank lending.
In the old days lawyers and accountants were the ones who curbed their clients' tax-evading urges.
Pay for U.K. executives continued to rise, but some activists believe the shareholder votes curbed excesses.
This shows how difficult it will be for federal spending ever to be curbed.
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He says the financial crisis and the volatile markets have curbed his appetite for risk.
Most consequentially, the growth in spending on entitlement programs Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare must be curbed.
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Cubans' access to the internet, and thus to the outside world, is being curbed.
But UK unions support the MEPs' stand, insisting Britain's culture of long hours must be curbed.
To squash price pressures they raised interest rates, curbed speculation and allowed their currencies to appreciate.
And although rich countries have curbed their energy-guzzling a little, demand continues to surge in emerging markets.
She also adopted a similarly low credit-limit plan, which curbed her impulse spending on clothes and restaurants.
They said they still see prices higher than current levels, but curbed the upside of their outlooks.
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In its first 32 years (after which Congress curbed mass immigration), 16m immigrants passed through the centre.
Unless this trend is curbed, he says, the UK will miss its targets on curbing climate change and sulphur pollution.
The conspicuous excesses of capitalism may likewise be curbed: shareholders may clamp down on silly executive pay.
If the states are to have their appetites curbed, it is fair to shrink the federal government, too.
Recently Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Kansas curbed or eliminated film subsidies, blaming strapped budgets.
That would have curbed the amount they borrowed meaning that the country might not actually be bankrupt now.
On Tuesday, Republicans reminded Cordray that they want to see his powers as director of the agency curbed.
Instead, he says warmth present in the Romney home could have curbed negative impacts of his powerful father.
If governments are serious about tackling climate change, international aviation emissions have to be curbed at some point.
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That same day, Saddam Hussein warned that Iraq would retaliate against other oil-exporting countries unless they curbed their production.
Any early dithering was curbed by a dictum from HP strategist Robert Napier.
Over the years, some of the players fanned out around the country which curbed the action but raised the stakes.
Authority is thus curbed only by the political class s imagination and the electorate s willingness to laden others with additional levies.
High interest rates and the weaker currency have curbed imports and boosted exports.
"With the implementation of government measures, price rises will be curbed effectively, " he said during a visit to a market.
Mr Osborne also said that, if not curbed, welfare spending would consume one third of public spending within three years.
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