Sentence examples for rather tighten from inspiring English sources

The novel of rural adolescent longing carries on as though it is not also a crime novel, and the crime novel tightens its grip on characters who would really rather tighten their grip on one another.

Or should it rather tighten the screws on the Putin regime, as it is currently doing, in hopes that this will concurrently compel the Russian Federation to moderate its increasingly assertive foreign policy and anchor Ukraine tightly into the Western fold?

Do not tighten them in order, rather, tighten them diagonally like lug nuts.

So, against much conventional, bigoted Volunteer State wisdom, he ran a rather tightening effort to become the South's first African American Senator since Reconstruction.

"As far as next year is concerned, in an environment where core inflation is falling again and economic growth remains muted, we still think that the Fed is more likely to loosen rather than tighten monetary policy".

She acknowledged the pressure that London's black cab drivers feel from Uber, but said the solution to the problem was to loosen regulations for taxi drivers, rather than tighten them for Uber.

Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.

But it seems perverse to treat the failure of financial rules as an excuse to reduce rather than tighten regulation.Michael Oxley argues that the real lesson from the financial crisis is that other countries, not just the United States, need to adopt Sarbox-style legislation.

In fact, when gun laws do get passed, they usually loosen restrictions rather than tighten them.

Rather than tighten our belts with everyone taking less and many contributing more, we chose instead to consume at an unprecedented pace -- and leave it to our children to pay for our profligacy.

But rather than tightening consumer protections, the Bush administration seems happy to let the agency decline.