Sentence examples for state tighten from inspiring English sources

Defying a federal judge's order that the state tighten its law on notification about sex offenders, an Assembly panel approved a bill yesterday to allow the posting of information about sex offenders on the World Wide Web.

In fact, if anything, voters want to see their own state tighten permit requirements.

The state tightened codes for commercial and industrial buildings and other residential buildings in April.

That may remain true even as the state tightens its grip.

But in early 2013, the state tightened the law, eliminating several I.D. options and imposing a strict photo requirement.

Increasingly over the next two decades, as corruption and human rights abuses increased, the state tightened its grip on information control.

Finding that suddenly cars driven by teenagers were full of "cousins," the state tightened the law in 2009, disallowing even siblings.

Kentucky's Medicaid program is in such fiscal distress that the state tightened rules for nursing home care, cutting off payments to many elderly people.

Even if the state tightens controls and pares back the industry, the central clash, between the federal war on drugs and California's desire to offer medical marijuana, will remain.

Last week, the state banned all outdoor watering for the 15-county Atlanta region from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Monday the state tightened the restrictions to limit outdoor watering to every other day.

Britain's Labor government, under strong pressure to stem a rising flow of immigration widely seen as placing unacceptable strain on the welfare state, tightened its asylum laws earlier this year.