"On Xinjiang, it is, and I think Tohti's arrest is a direct result of this – a new level of political tightening in respect to ethnic affairs issues".
In Britain, by contrast, the Conservative Liberal coalition, working under the banner of austerity, is steadily chipping away at the welfare state, cutting the level of benefits, tightening qualification requirements, and forcing students to pay more.
But the evidence of tightening is thin.
These would employ more people, teach them skills better suited to the island's level of development, and tighten links to local suppliers and business services.
Third, Congress would offer a health care tax credit to families making up to 200percentt of the poverty level, and would tighten benefits for the affluent.
He is also planning to remove from the rolls about 6,150 19- and 20-year-olds with incomes up to 150 percent of the poverty level, and to tighten eligibility limits in programs that help elderly and disabled people pay for prescription drugs and health care.
Also under study are the low-level mesocyclone and the stretching of low-level vorticity which tightens into a tornado, namely, what are the processes and what is the relationship of the environment and the convective storm.
If you ask people with that level of access to energy to tighten their belts, that's a very big ask.
She has introduced a bill to tighten the level of allowable noise at 60 Hudson and the city's other commercial buildings.
