1.   A falling stock market, for example, could seriously curtail consumption.

2.   Curtailing electricity consumption this summer is going to be crucial.

3.   In explaining the consumption behavior, Rodekohr said that consumers last year were shocked by the high costs at the pump and reacted by curtailing consumption.

4.   It is true that in the extreme cases where people literally eat themselves to death their consumption is thereby curtailed.

5.   While curbing wages, the government also wants to curtail the consumption of oil and other imports.

6.   Japan has largely averted the mad cow disease scare that curtailed beef consumption in other parts of the world.

7.   WHO has a combative relationship with the tobacco industry and is crafting international legislation to seriously curtail tobacco consumption.

8.   This would slow the economy, make credit card debt expensive, and curtail consumption further.