The Irish Government has implemented a series of national economic programs designed to curb price and wage inflation, invest in infrastructure, increase labor force skills, and promote foreign investment.
In May 2007 Kuwait changed its currency peg from the US dollar to a basket of currencies in order to curb inflation and to reduce its vulnerability to external shocks.
In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program due to the government's failure to maintain reforms and curb corruption.
Merritt Hughes stood on the curb of the justice building watching his nephew until Bob turned the corner a block away.
By the time the older federal agent was back Bob had a cab waiting at the curb and they told the driver to speed them to the hospital.
He had gone a little more than a block when a car pulled along the curband the driver stuck his head out the window.
Now I challenge Congress to go further--to curb special interest influence in politics by passing the first truly bipartisan campaign reform bill in a generation.
We should also curb the role of big money in elections by capping the cost of campaigns and limiting the influence of PAC's.
It should be a curb on dangerous passions and injurious desires.
He looks upon this sense of inferiority as a curb on the people's power, all the more potent that it works from within and has a paralysing effect on its energy.
He stood on the curb with his hat in his hand, smiling his farewells until the cab had passed through the gates.
He turned into the Monico and drank a whisky and soda, and as he came out he saw a green 'bus drawing up at the curb outside the Pavilion music hall.
Moreover, their patience had been severely tried for many tedious hours, and the removal of the curb had gone to their heads like wine.
A street lamp on the curb struggled to illuminate, but it was reduced to impotent blindness by the swift gusts of sleet crusting its panes.
That a man in his own home should have to curb his tongue and speak tactfully!
In order to curbhis impatience he walked through the street leading to the basilica, past all the booths and shops with pictures and pious souvenirs which have converted the place into a big bazaar.
Meanwhile, the professor, unable to curb his enthusiasm, continued expounding the grandeur of his race.
To the east was a double board wall with earth tamped between: a solid curb higher than the head of a tall man.
She pressed her throbbing head on the cool stones of the well-curb and prayed for light.
He read terror in every line of her quivering figure, and in the frantic way she clung to the well-curb to increase the space between them.
When he saw her forlorn little figure huddled by the well-curb in an attitude of absolute dejection, he could not go on without saying some word of comfort.
Anna sat on the bench by the well-curb and faced despair.
Bracing one foot against the curb of the bridge, my eye moved involuntarily to where my foot rested.
He thought of slackening the curb for the poor beast, but was too lazy to stir.
The groom helped Frau von Gropphusen to mount, and inquired if he should tighten thecurb a little.
Nay, your tongue will outstrip time, if you put not a curb upon it.
Till the real culprit is in custody and the mystery entirely cleared away, my impatience must continue to curb itself.
I don't know as it is a matter of any importance but--" He stopped, evidently putting a curb upon himself.
Up to the moment when the car pulled up at the curb she had been going over and over, since parting with Blythe and Laura, the incidents of the day that had made it such an oasis of happiness.
When Mrs. Treharne walked over to the curb to summon the chauffeur of the taxicab Laura seized the moment to say to Louise in a low tone.
She was pale and in a tremor of uneasiness when the taxicab pulled up at the curb of a neat three-story house near the end of a row of similar houses.
At the start, a judicious use of the curb will doubtless be necessary for keeping an excited hunter under control, and allowing the rider in front plenty of room to jump and get clear away from his fence.
Curb reversed by horse throwing up his head, in the absence of a chin-strap 77 45.
The abuse of the curb at fences is the cause of, I think, half the falls, and more than half of the refusals which we see in the hunting field.
A Pelham is a bit which can act either as a curb or a snaffle, according to the reins which are taken up.
With the same object, I like the snaffle reins to be connected by a buckle, and the curb reins by sewing.
She should be careful to leave the curb alone, and always ride over fences on the snaffle.
The pupil who is learning to gallop should try the effect of the curb in stopping her horse while another horse is galloping away from her.
With a double bridle, the curb reins are sometimes made a little narrower than the snaffle reins, which is an arrangement I like, because it greatly helps the rider to distinguish one pair of reins from the other.
He glanced over his wheel to see that it was all right, and just as he stepped to the curb to mount he heard a voice that thrilled him through and through: "Freckles!
Freckles stood on the curb with drooped eyes, for he felt that if he lifted them the tumult of tender adoration in them would show and frighten her.
We also launched major initiatives to reduce the backlog of defaulted student loans and otherwise to curb fraud, abuse, and waste in education programs.
For some virtues are directed to curb passions: thus immoderate concupiscence is restrained by temperance, and immoderate fear by fortitude.
Now it is in the power of the free-will to curb this appetite and keep it in order.
