Sentence examples for required belt from inspiring English sources

I've got to let it go or I'll never be happy.' " Living on one regular salary (money from the eight books she's written since she left her staff job comes in "dribs and drabs" from advances and royalty payments, she said) required belt tightening — fewer new clothes, no new car.

Further, required belt tightening by the PIIGS is likely to cause social unrest and a political backlash in Europe, and in a worst case situation, could threaten the utilization of the Euro as a currency.

This sad state of affairs -- so the common version of the story goes -- is the consequence of economic hard-times, which require belt tightening and budget cuts.

The DOD budgeteers... apparently reason that a smaller GDP requires belt-tightening.

Citing the global economic downturn and the rising cost of oil, Mr. Castro said Cuba and other countries in the developing world face severe challenges that would require belt-tightening and patience.

On the seat-belt issue, Washington has used a carrot-and-stick approach, but decisions on whether to require belts, and whether to let officers pull over motorists who they can see aren't wearing belts, are up to the states.

Entertainment Weekly's Chris Willman wrote that Wainwright's "delicate upper range is nicely attuned to some of the ballads, but anything that requires belting is pretty much a loss".

Traditionally, the female belt range extended to C5, but in current rock/pop Broadway productions, women are often required to belt up to an F5.

He and his colleagues were required to belt out lines spoken by Ariel in "The Tempest," using different emotions for each line.

Unlike other techniques, belting relies on keeping a higher larynx, taking high, shallow breaths, and using the muscles across the upper chest and back to stabilise the larynx and anchor the torso in preparation for the effort required to belt.

Because her accompaniment consists of only piano (Larry Yurman), bass (John Miller) and guitar (Jack Cavari), she isn't required to belt, which is all to the good in an intimate cabaret setting.