Sentence examples for desire for tighter from inspiring English sources

The move signalled a desire for tighter connections with China's new science-based economy, and wish to diversify Hong Kong's own.

Although Canadians may find common cause with American companies and politicians in border states to fight the requirement, security-conscious America is unlikely to allow commercial concerns to trump its own desire for tighter borders.

President Bush nominated Sean O'Keefe, a White House budget expert, today to be the new head of NASA, signaling a desire for tighter management and fiscal control for the space agency.

A29 SCIENCE/HEALTH Bush Choice to Head NASA President Bush nominated a White House budget expert close to Vice President Dick Cheney, Sean O'Keefe, signaling a desire for tighter management and fiscal control.

They mention a desire for tighter immigration controls, for keeping war refugees in their homelands, for forcing foreigners in Germany to speak German at home (also a proposal made recently by the CSU, the sister party of the president, Angela Merkel) and for the swifter deportation of criminal asylum seekers (such as Bachmann, presumably).

Faced with such staunch opposition to his desire for tighter gun laws, President Obama called on the media on Thursday to compare the number of US citizens killed by terrorism to those killed by gun violence.

Democrats, in turn, contend that Mr. Bush's desire for tight caps on lawsuits coddles corporations that are trying to protect their profits.

For all of their high-technology and talk of innovation, I worry that the console manufacturers' desire for tight control and a continued reliance on retail could hold back real innovation in business models.

Her desire for tight control over personal information deepened during the partisan wars of the 1990s, influenced her use of a private email server as secretary of state and now threatens to make her look, again, as though she has something to hide.

Trump's campaign capitalized on a basic scientific principle that manifests time and time again in our cultural psychology research: When people perceive threats, they show a greater desire for tight rules and for strong leaders who say they can create social order and coordination.

Given the board's presumed desire for tougher enforcement and tighter limits, many election law experts expect the board to err on the side of more disclosure, not less, in the rules it devises.