Sentence examples for failed to tighten from inspiring English sources

The Group of 20 industrialized and developing countries began a campaign last April to identify tax havens and penalize those that failed to tighten standards and provide transparency.

The central bank has acknowledged that it failed to tighten underwriting standards, which could have helped avert the subprime lending crisis and the subsequent recession.

The Federal Reserve failed to tighten underwriting standards, while the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision were "actively engaged in a campaign to thwart state efforts to avert the coming crisis," she said.

You can argue that monetary policy was too loose, that the Fed was too expansionary in 1972 (when Arthur Burns was trying to reelect Richard Nixon) and that it failed to tighten in the face of oil-shock-driven inflation.

Robert G. McNally, failed to tighten his lap belt, leading to "an incorrect perception of his position and motion relative to the ground" as rapid acceleration forces confused him, a report by the Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board said.

England's second string had not had it all their own way in the opening period as they tried to go wide too soon and they initially failed to tighten things up after the interval.

A recitation of the events of that day, especially coming after a series of lovingly shot Manhattan streetscapes, can't fail to tighten throats and moisten eyes.

The government is pressing for a consensual approach, with sources as yet unwilling to comment on the possibility of legislation if social media companies fail to tighten their procedures.

The attorney general also accused Peabody of presenting lopsided views of IEA reports, by choosing to report only on the "current policy scenario" which assumes governments fail to tighten up climate change policies, and ignoring the two other scenarios which paint a less favourable picture for coal growth.

Not only did it not polymerize and fail to tighten the leak, it also intoxicated the surroundings with acrylamide.

The only car to drop out of the race was that of the other Mercedes driver, Michael Schumacher, 43, who started in second but had a problem during a pit stop when a mechanic failed to finish tightening a bolt on a wheel.