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The phrase "ability to tighten" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to make something more secure or firm, often in a mechanical or metaphorical context. Example: "The technician demonstrated his ability to tighten the screws efficiently, ensuring the machinery operated smoothly."
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Environmentalists are skeptical of the industry's voluntary self-policing plan and the states' ability to tighten controls.
All the chemical elements also showed a general increase in concentration, especially within the topmost soil layer, because increased soil organic matter had greater ability to tighten them together.
The governor has the ability to tighten environmental regulations related to sprawl, and "to clean up some of the money politics that has gone on in New Jersey," Mr. Corzine said.
For some, China's ability to tighten policy at a time when the U.S. economy is still battling near-10 percent unemployment is a sign of the Chinese economy's strength.
In a televised interview this month, Mr. Bernanke said he was "100 percent" confident of the Fed's ability to tighten monetary policy and raise interest rates when the time came, and called fears of inflation "way overstated".
The currency's reversal of recent strength comes in response to Friday's surprisingly weak May US jobs report that must be considered a setback for Janet Yellen and [the Federal Reserve] in terms of ability to tighten US monetary policy further this summer.
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Note that many service manuals call for specific torque requirements for the installation of your water pump, so if you are in doubt of your ability to properly tighten the bolts, invest in a good torque wrench for this step.
On this score, the report agreed with the government's efforts to tighten the ability for people to gain access to the disability support pension because "a person's chances of returning to employment are very low" once disability benefits have been granted.
Later, the panel decided to tighten somewhat the ability of American multinational corporations to reduce their taxes by claiming credits against the taxes they paid to foreign governments.
Now boards are under pressure to tighten the rules that speed up the ability of departing executives to cash out big chunks of stock.
As the sand bed of the filter accumulates debris, it actually helps to tighten the filter media resulting in the ability for better filtration.
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