Sentence examples for considerably tightened from inspiring English sources

The European Commission has considerably tightened up the ethical requirements for research applications to the 7th Framework Programme.

Although laws have been considerably tightened in South Africa since the end of apartheid, there is a strong subculture of gun ownership, legal and illegal, in the country.

But even this comparison gets weaker if you look at the way the Swiss keep their guns, which stems from a tradition of military service that has been considerably tightened over the years.

And if you go further back in time -- say, to the early 1970's, when the number of civilians shot to death by the police averaged 63 a year -- you can see that the rules of engagement for officers have been considerably tightened.

In a way, this study provides the necessary testing cohort for these studies, even though under considerably tightened conditions with probable differences in surgery, in the pre-analytic steps, the immunostaining protocols, and the analytical attitude of the observers in the interpretation of immunostainings.

It would considerably tighten rules aimed at keeping children out of adult jails during pretrial periods.

The CSU will publish a refugee strategy paper at the weekend, proposing a raft of measures that would considerably tighten the government's refugee policy.

Furthermore, our recommendations are already considerably tightening the thresholds for significance in systematic reviews, and if thresholds are too tight, there is a risk of 'throwing the baby out with the bath water'.

An explanation may be that the placebo effect in the subgroup with the lowest baseline defecation frequency was initially almost 90%% and was reduced considerably after tightening the criteria, which may have disguised the benefit of the probiotic treatment.

These days, the numbers have tightened considerably.

But since the Democratic convention two weeks ago, the race has tightened considerably.