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Tighter
noun
A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.
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8. Tighter control of pagination We need to ensure that we are serving a digital platform first, and a newspaper second.
Tighter immigration and asylum rules are likely, though they will not go anywhere near as far as Pim Fortuyn would have wanted.
Tighter regulation is leading to a clampdown on outfits that governments dislike.In this section Betting on hot air Seeking the Nixon spirit Flop gear Water, water everywhere The faithful couple Who's afraid of the activists?
Tighter restrictions on foreign spouses were presented as a measure to prevent forced marriages, rather than to keep people out.
A law that comes into effect in Russia on Friday will place tighter controls on the blogosphere, one of the few remaining places where people can freely criticise the government.
He added that El Chapo's arrest and tighter restrictions on cash transactions had led to a notable contraction in the past year, though he expected this to ease once the cartel had found new creative ways of laundering its money.
Moody's predicted political instability in the Netherlands for the rest of 2012, and also warned that the collapse of Mark Rutte's government also threatens Europe's drive for closer, tighter, fiscal unity: As one of the euro area's main proponents of rules-based fiscal discipline and monitoring, a Dutch failure to abide by these rules could weaken proposed euro area rules at their birth.
Making it harder for sick people to claim state aid when they are out of work by introducing "stricter" fit-for-work tests and/or tighter limits on eligibility.
They also worry about the impact on recovery, and personal finances, of tighter monetary policy.
In an era of tighter legal budgets and government cuts, specialist knowledge and flexibility are increasingly demanded of lawyers.
The supply shortage may be a consequence of Argentina burning its bridges with foreign creditors, which has led to tighter supplies of foreign currency, hurting imports.
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