Political concerns and the country's continuing instablility are also likely to curtail demand for the bonds from potential investors.

Unfortunately, politicians remain opposed to allowing high prices to do what high prices do best: curtail demand and increase supplies.

Energy prices have collapsed since the summer, as the prospect of recession has curtailed demand.

The traffic fell when prohibition curtailed demand for ice, and never recovered.

Lowering the prices would encourage businesses to curtail production in order to prevent losses, which would eliminate the surplus.

Falling prices for metals in 1980, combined with environmental problems, forced many of the mines to curtail production.

Strikes might affect output and wily pit owners would sometimes curtail production to keep prices high.

Instead of curtailing production, most firms chose to build up inventories.

A coercive monopoly has very few incentives to keep prices low and may deliberately price gouge consumers by curtailing production.

Asset confiscation orders and serious crime prevention orders both offer the police and other law enforcement agencies substantial powers to curtail the activities of those intent on committing serious crime.

Any ban would severely curtail the activities of the six lakeland fell packs.

The parliament attempted several times during 1992-93 to repeal or curtail the activities of these appointees, whose powers are only alluded to in the constitution.

However, he warned that rising raw material costs and the eurozone's debt crisis could curtail any growth in profits.

He was a reformer on council and wanted to curtail the growth of public expenditures and eliminate patronage and corruption.

Yet somehow the world failed to end before the war did in 1918, and a series of postwar setbacks curtailed the growth of evangelical fervour.

Voluntary interviews let police avoid bureaucracy but mean that suspects cannot be bailed with restrictions that curtail their movements and prevent them from contacting specific people, such as witnesses.

Police sergeants take an average of 13 minutes to weigh up each criminal case before authorising bail restrictions for suspects such as curtailing their movements and seizing passports.

However, legislation in the early 1980s severely curtailed the movement due to budget constraints.

Recently the high-rise buildings in the nearby area are curtailing the movement of birds in the sanctuary.

And he seconded an amendment to curtail the power of magistrates to send young people to borstal.

The northern tribes bitterly resented his attempts to curtail their power.

The government even gestured towards some democratisation, curtailing the powers of special security courts instated by the army after their most recent coup in 1997.

He said that he remained committed to enforcing meas-ures that would improve the country's environmental record, despite the pressure being brought to bear to curtail the powers of his agency.

Its rapid rise alarmed the government, which moved to curtail the powers of local government.

Senior officers oppose any move to curtail the use of the sites as they use them to provide information to the public and to pick up chatter or intelligence.

It could also encourage celebrities to curtail their use of agents and public relations advisers or make them reduce their fees.

Doctors are still writing more than 11 million prescriptions a year for 'benzos', three decades after being encouraged to curtail their use.

Riparian property organizations want to curtail the use of road ends by the general public.

So he just doesn't have the clout to persuade even his own party to back legislation curtailing the use of fossil fuels.

Some who had violated the law curtailing protests were also included.

These periodic fires kept woodland areas relatively open until 20th century laws curtailed burning in an effort to protect structures.

Protests were first raised regarding rodeo animal cruelty in the 1870s, and, beginning in the 1930s, some states enacted laws curtailing rodeo activities and other events involving animals.

Laws curtailing loan sharking were also passed.