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  • Look up curtailment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Curtailment may refer to: Restricting or limiting civil liberties Jurisdiction stripping or curtailment...
    587 bytes (97 words) - 21:57, 22 October 2020
  • generators, curtailment is the deliberate reduction in output below what could have been produced in order to balance energy supply and demand or due to transmission...
    12 KB (1,008 words) - 03:55, 26 May 2024
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    event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential is known as an "existential risk." Over...
    53 KB (5,527 words) - 04:40, 28 May 2024
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    Sovereignty (redirect from Right to rule)
    accountability Efforts to curtail absolute sovereignty have met with substantial resistance by sovereigntist movements in multiple countries who seek to "take back...
    69 KB (8,127 words) - 12:26, 28 May 2024
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    scheduled end by paying some or all of the remainder prematurely, called curtailment. An amortization schedule is typically worked out taking the principal...
    54 KB (7,201 words) - 13:27, 11 May 2024
  • court-stripping or curtailment-of-jurisdiction) is the limiting or reducing of a court's jurisdiction by Congress through its constitutional authority to determine...
    33 KB (4,630 words) - 13:04, 23 May 2024
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    Hajj (redirect from Pilgrimage to mecca)
    following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Saudi authorities have curtailed the five-day event in Mecca to fewer than 10,000 people, already residing in the country...
    115 KB (10,670 words) - 11:12, 27 May 2024
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    Supreme Court ruled on the case of Watkins v. United States, curtailing the power of HUAC to punish uncooperative witnesses by finding them in contempt...
    120 KB (13,818 words) - 15:43, 22 May 2024
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    Supreme Court case, in which the Court ruled that Parliament could not curtail any of the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution. The family of Henry...
    10 KB (1,274 words) - 16:25, 5 May 2024
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    with Stooge and Brakemine were successful, but further development was curtailed in the post-war era. These efforts picked up again with the opening of...
    37 KB (4,587 words) - 18:48, 25 May 2024
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    central government may override the decisions of devolved governments, curtail their powers, or expand their powers. The modern unitary state concept...
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    (1990). "The Right to Silence Reassessed". 74 Victorian Bar News 25. Coldrey, J. (1991). "The Right to Silence: Should It Be Curtailed or Abolished?", 20...
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    and of the states to abridge the individual freedoms it protects. The First Amendment was adopted to curtail the power of Congress to interfere with the...
    218 KB (26,395 words) - 14:26, 26 May 2024
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    This failed when his teenage successor, the Jianwen Emperor, attempted to curtail his uncles' power, prompting the Jingnan campaign, an uprising that placed...
    139 KB (16,423 words) - 11:05, 31 May 2024
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    tongue. It is performed in order to curtail malignant growth such as oral cancer. Often only a portion of the tongue needs to be removed, in which case the...
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    distributes tobacco to other retailers and assesses and collects tobacco tax. Iceland has very high taxes on alcohol to curtail consumption and as a...
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    fruit and vine crops. Sand dune stabilization in the region is required to curtail burial of the trans-Asia Baotou–Lanzhou Railway. At present, Shapotou...
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    gravity to merit large-scale violence; third, the just belligerent must have rightful intentions – namely, that they seek to advance good and curtail evil;...
    106 KB (10,748 words) - 00:38, 18 May 2024
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    countries in the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire began taking steps to curtail the slave trade, which had been legally valid under Ottoman law since...
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    S2CID 256820433. Ngonghala CN, Iboi EA, Gumel AB (1 November 2020). "Could masks curtail the post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?". Mathematical Biosciences...
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