Sentence examples for managed to tighten from inspiring English sources

In December the DF also managed to tighten up the rules on obtaining citizenship.

In the month since the ruling PSUV party suffered a crushing defeat in December's elections, Maduro has managed to tighten his control and limit the lawmakers' power.

We managed to tighten up in the second half and got the two goals but then switched off a little bit".

Here's hoping Eidos manages to tighten up these flaws because they're sizable chinks in Thief's armour.

How did they manage to tighten the game to a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter only to come unraveled a minute later?

Even after the price of crude began to collapse in late 2014, erasing thousands of jobs, many residents managed to hang on, tightening their belts while waiting for the good times to return.

Nonetheless, the U.S. has managed to engage Beijing via the UN Security Council to tighten sanctions, the only tool/weapon effectively available to Washington.

A dry-aged duck in particular, its fat gone the color and flavor of cheese below its tightened skin, managed to trigger a dopamine rush, the thick complexity of its flavor making a mockery of almost all ducks that had come before.

"Fortunately, doctors managed to cure it, but now they're asking us to tighten our belts again.

The Obama Administration is ignoring the tightened regulations that it itself managed to get implemented on paper.

Separately, Gary Gensler, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who has been waging an underfunded and lonely fight to tighten the markets for those side bets called derivatives, managed to push forward a rule to regulate the complex markets.