The phrase "moderate tightening" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where something, such as rules or restrictions, is being made stricter but not to an extreme degree. Example: In response to the recent surge in COVID cases, the government announced a moderate tightening of social distancing measures, including limiting gatherings to 10 people and closing non-essential businesses.
Mr. Wen said Wednesday that monetary policy needed "moderate tightening," underscoring the failure of two interest rate increases this year to slow the economy.
Taken together, the two measures represent a moderate tightening of monetary policy -- a light tap on the brakes for an economy that is showing signs of overheating and rising inflation.
Started early, a gradual and moderate tightening would have curbed speculation without triggering a meltdown.Stock-markets at their present levels are out of touch with economic reality, propelled solely by record low interest rates in most of the developed world.
But Mike Dueker, chief economist for Russell Investments, says he thinks policy makers may ultimately reach a fiscal-tightening agreement that will result in a much smaller drag on G.D.P. Marie M. Schofield, chief economist at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, agrees that a moderate tightening is likely.
Rather than abolishing these tax benefits outright, I would impose reasonable restrictions, like limiting mortgage exemptions to a single home of moderate size, tightening the definition of charitable organizations, and providing some tax relief for interest and dividends only when accrued in retirement savings accounts of reasonable size.
To be included, patients had to describe all the pain features of TTH: bilateral location, pressing and tightening pain, moderate intensity (≤6 on a 10-points numerical pain rate scale, NPRS) and no aggravation of pain during physical activity.
The headache showed a tightening quality of moderate to severe intensity not associated with autonomic symptoms, photophobia or phonophobia.
Recently, Serna-Candel et al. described three cluster headache (CH) patients whose typical CH attacks started with mild or moderate pain of dull or tightening character at the occipital region and gradually moved forward over 10 to 30 minutes, finally reached the ipsilateral orbital area, and the authors named this headache "ascending CH" [12].
The headache exhibited a variable duration and had a throbbing or tightening character with a moderate intensity in most cases.
In contrast, TTH is characterized by mild to moderate headache intensity and of dull, tightening character without autonomic symptoms.
This trial and others (11) have demonstrated clearly that at least in the short term (3 5 years), tightening glycemic control from moderate to fairly tight levels of A1C (6–6.5%) has no significant effect in reducing macrovascular disease.
