Sentence examples for have tightened rules from inspiring English sources

A powerful business lobbying coalition helped brush aside a proposal in Congress that would have tightened rules on stock options.

The power shift has happened with relatively little scrutiny, even as federal authorities have tightened rules for banks.

Under increased scrutiny from parents, lawmakers and others, youth leagues have tightened rules to reduce the amount of hits children absorb.

Financing arms of the three major U.S.-based auto companies have tightened rules for financing auto loans and leases, so there may be an opening for Toyota to catapult itself way ahead of the pack.

"That is exactly why we have tightened rules so that all courses, including vocational qualifications such as Btecs, will be equivalent to no more than one GCSE in the league tables.

The European Commission has tightened rules on proportionality.

The government has tightened rules for people receiving unemployment benefit to encourage them to look for work or to take training courses.

But the E.P.A. has tightened rules for drinking water in recent years, leading to pressure on the city to clean up the plants.

On January 17th Xinhua reported that the party had tightened rules for "naked officials"—whose spouses or children have moved abroad, leaving them alone in China and explicitly barring officials from promotion if their spouses have moved overseas.

On Thursday, the government of President Hamid Karzai announced that it had tightened rules banning the sale and use of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that insurgents have been using to make homemade bombs.

The agency has tightened rules for staff members traveling in foreign countries, saying they cannot have foreigners in their rooms with the exception of hotel staff members and law enforcement counterparts.