Sentence examples for priority tightening from inspiring English sources

Last year, many Catholic bishops and cardinals essentially made a Faustian bargain: They were willing to join hands with a Republican presidential candidate with no discernible moral compass in exchange for one priority: tightening restrictions on legal abortion and denying access to birth control to millions of poor women.

Katz says the first priority in tightening a building should be to seal leaks in the top; the second priority is sealing the bottom.

With a heightened priority on tightening the nation's borders, few federal agencies have faced as much scrutiny since Sept. 11 as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

On top of the sweeping popularity of the online petition to legalize cannabis — it reached 125,000 signatures in just four days when it was launched last August — several high-profile Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have indicated that prosecuting cannabis users or small-scale growers is no longer a priority amid tightening budgets and stretched resources.

Being a clean-tech startup amidst today's uncertain political priorities and tightening R&D budgets is like being on a rollercoaster where the loops keep getting bigger and bigger and have no end in sight.

Steven Aftergood, who monitors secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists, said that since WikiLeaks the government has elevated the "insider threat" as a priority, and tightened access to classified material.

"Many schools and local police departments have had to reassess their own funding priorities because of tightening budgets related in part to the national recession of 2008 and 2009".

During the legislative session that ended last month, Mr. Cuomo saw his most significant campaign priorities enacted, including a tightening of ethics rules, a cap on local property tax increases and the legalization of same-sex marriage.

He has acknowledged the priority is to tighten Palace up defensively, with the team having achieved only two clean sheets in the league in close to a year.

He supports standard Democratic priorities like rebuilding infrastructure and tightening gun background checks, as well as more progressive legislation like decriminalizing marijuana and creating a single-payer health care system.

Choice and degree of tightening reflect the specific priorities for sustainable land use.