Sentence examples for progressively tightening from inspiring English sources

European Union nations and China have been progressively tightening rules around the amount of CO2 cars are permitted to expel.

The People's Bank of China has been progressively tightening financial conditions over recent months to rein in excessive lending growth in the economy.

Although the embargo never fully eliminated business or transit between the two nations, the progressively tightening sanctions created a series of hurdles that made regular ferry routes functionally impossible.

While the shaft turns, the steel wire wraps around its tip, firmly and progressively tightening the loop that cuts the muscle (Figs.  1a c, 2a g).

Campaigners say that the decision to place the bar at 50% was thus political – and unlawful, given the regulations' requirement that air quality laws be progressively tightened.

An emissions reduction fund … [and] secondly, we have the safeguards mechanism which allows us to work with individual firms on a budget which can be adjusted and progressively tightened throughout the 2020s through to 2030 and 2040 and 2050".

If the "baselines" over which companies cannot increase their emissions are progressively tightened, as Hunt suggests, the government's policy allows the offending companies to make up for it by "purchasing credits created by other accredited emissions reduction projects".

Over the past year, Beijing has progressively tightened the spigot on the ample bank lending that has fueled growth but also contributed to sharp increases in property prices and overall consumer prices.

In meetings with regulators, Mr. De Vroey and other airline representatives argued that survivability standards have been progressively tightened and that even Koito's defective products are an improvement on seats made a few decades ago.

An emissions reduction fund which has a long term future … (and) the safeguards mechanism which allows us to work with individual firms on a budget which can be adjusted and progressively tightened throughout the 2020s through to 2030 and 2040 and 2050," he said.

Indeed, consciousness of these facts helps explain why Walzer has progressively tightened the conditions in which dirty hands apply.