Sentence examples for as it tightened from inspiring English sources

He could vaguely feel its outline as it tightened, becoming more erect, as his wife lay sleeping next to him.

THE AMERICAS CANADA -- Struggling with more than 240 diverted planes and 30,000 stranded passengers, Canada reopened its domestic airspace but warned of delays as it tightened security.

To exercise normal control in the 1970s and 1980s, the Fed had to push its levers further and further squeezing banks terribly as it tightened credit and some observers wondered whether the Fed would have the stomach to tear up its direct constituents the next time severe tightening was needed.

I was nervous as it tightened itself around my neck, yet the serpent was surprisingly docile, and the priest assured me I'd be fine.

Mr. Bequelin noted that an increase in arrests would be in keeping with China's aggressive efforts to quell dissent of all kinds as it tightened security ahead of the Olympic Games, which were held in August.

Countrywide, based in Calabasas, Calif., said it had also financed $34.4 billion of mortgage loans in August, down 17.3percentt from a year earlier, as it tightened lending standards.

The military contractor Litton Industries Inc. agreed yesterday to sell its Weather Services International unit to Landmark Communications Inc. for $120 million, raising cash as it tightens its focus on core operations.

The Sunni monarchy in Bahrain doesn't want witnesses as it tightens its chokehold over a largely Shiite population.

Yet they will also find internment camps, military checkpoints and a government accused by watchdog groups of undermining democratic principles as it tightens its grip on power.

An unpopular few among them have begun to raise alarms about what they are calling signs of "fascism": the fervor in the streets, the glorification of the military as it tightens its grip and the enthusiastic cheers for the suppression of the Islamists.

But the coalition government that recently came to power in Romania has ordered an end to that international focus as it tightens its political control over the institute, actions that have set off protests among arts groups throughout Europe and the United States.