Sentence examples for it only tightens from inspiring English sources
If banks remain nervous about increasing the amount of mortgages they originate, it only tightens the grip of the few dominant lenders, making it easier for them to determine the interest rates that ordinary borrowers pay and generate strong profits.
Just Monty's luck to play the brilliant shot first, when it could only tighten the noose.
If Comcast acquires Disney, for example, it will only tighten the screws for MGM, the last major free-standing studio in a business of intertangled conglomerates.
Trying to do so only tightens it.
The arrangement of the carbon nanofibers in the yarns is similar to the fibers in a finger trap child's game in which attempting to pull your fingers out of a tube only tightens it more.
This impossible exchange — a promise of freedom and its simultaneous refusal — binds the three principals in this mini-drama like a rope, which only tightens as the story unfolds.
According to Barlow, attempts to suppress painful emotion lie at the heart of most pathology; the struggle involved in suppression only tightens the noose on an already vulnerable neck.
It betrayed an embarrassment at the leadership's complicity with the president -- but in a manner that only increases the embarrassment and only tightens the complicity.
Sure, Fedor can conceivably bounce back, defeat Werdum in a return and then claw back some of his shattered mystique but, in the short-term, at least, Lesnar's grip on the world's heavyweight division only tightens.
The advantage of the clamps over the tie down is that you can tighten the clamps from several places, a tie down only tightens from one spot and may not spread the tire out evenly all the way around.
