Sentence examples for continued to tighten from inspiring English sources
Mortgage rates rose this summer as lenders continued to tighten their standards for issuing home loans.
In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk at least four people were killed as government forces continued to tighten their grip on the pro-Russia rebel stronghold.
Banks continued to tighten their purse strings in October, according to a survey of senior loan officers conducted by the Federal Reserve.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's latest loan-officer survey showed that American banks continued to tighten lending standards in the three months to April, although not quite as sharply as before.
And they continued to tighten their hold with fiercely effective anti-British and anti-Semitic propaganda — in Baghdad, a German-owned Arabic newspaper had serialized parts of "Mein Kampf" — which Stark's new job was to help overcome.
The Fed survey of 55 domestic banks and 21 United States offices of foreign banks found that sizable percentages of banks had "continued to tighten their lending standards and terms on all major loan categories over the previous three months".
