Sentence examples for exercising tight control from inspiring English sources

Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay painstakingly built their record-setting careers and untainted reputations by resisting shortcuts and exercising tight control over who gained entrance to their inner circles.

(A Chinese official once described the Confucius Institutes as "an important part of China's overseas propaganda set-up"). Beijing has also been exercising tight control over the large population of Chinese students in the United States, deploying them to lobby for Chinese interests on campus.

Qatar is currently the highest emitter per capita and targets emission reduction by exercising tight controls on gas flaring.

Most of these countries exercised tight control over pharmaceutical prices and pharmacists' margins.

Mr. Bloomberg and his top advisers have made no secret of their intent to exercise tight control of the Education Department.

He led the group that organizes the Puerto Rican Day Parade and exercised tight control over its finances.

If the government was able to continue, he said, it would exercise tight control over public finances and avoid the deficit running over 3%.

Nazarbayev has exercised tight control over the country since the Soviet days of 1989, when he was head of the Communist Party.

In Germany central authority over insurance regulation is provided by the Federal Insurance Supervisory Authority (BAV), which exercises tight control of premiums, reserves, and investments of insurers.

This was very different from the traditional approach mobile phone carriers in the United States have typically exercised tight control over which software can be run on their devices.

In high schools and elementary schools, teachers try to exercise tight control over backchannels, often reviewing a transcript after class for inappropriate remarks.