Sentence examples for instead of tightening from inspiring English sources

Instead of tightening restrictions further, prison officials loosened them.

Instead of tightening his face in concentration, he let everything go soft — eyes unfocused, mouth slack.

Instead of tightening belts, the state increased spending this year by six percent; the city budget grew three percent.

Instead of tightening monetary policy to defend the currency, governments have to tighten fiscal policy to try to keep the lid on their borrowing costs.

One absurd argument some gun extremists are already making is that, instead of tightening gun laws, we should go in the other direction, and start packing heat.

To cope with the dynamic, entangled, variegated nature of our information-governed world, perhaps the law just needs to relax -- loosen the cords, instead of tightening them.

Instead of simply tightening this lug a half turn as before, tighten it slowly until the DrumDial reading matches the reading on the first lug.

Instead, there is more talk of tightening sanctions and developing even bigger bunker-busting bombs.

Tried to connect with your body by stretching it out consciously instead of staying tightened up, in a contracted and fearful state?

But the evidence of tightening is thin.

The governments of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal are pressing Merkel to relent, and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the ultimate weathervane, now says the EU needs to focus on growth instead of belt-tightening.