Sentence examples for steady tightening from inspiring English sources

The steady tightening of the junta's grip has been widely condemned internationally.

After months of steady tightening, the controls have finally begun to bite into inflation, business growth, real estate prices and lending.

And there are worries about how the steady tightening of Chinese monetary policy will affect the world's fastest-growing big economy.Investors are also in two minds about fiscal policy.

In addition to the Guangdong killings, many Uighurs have bristled at a steady tightening of religious constraints, including a ban on prayer at weddings, said Sophie Richardson, Asian advocacy director in Washington for Human Rights Watch.

The euro area's 12-month current-account surplus shrank again in September to $1.4 billion.While interest rates are heading up in the euro area, the steady tightening of monetary policy in America since the middle of last year may be coming to an end.

Some 11% of the state's population indulge just a puff over the national average, and less than every state in New England.The likely explanation is a steady tightening of America's borders after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and the panic over illegal immigration.

And ING reckons the first rate hike will come in November, followed by "very slow and steady additional tightening of perhaps 25bp per quarter thereafter".

But so far, travel agencies say, business travel is holding steady, although companies are tightening their belts.

For the past several decades there has been a steady and healthy trend toward tightening up the procedures governing the ethics and safety of biomedical research.

But tightening in Europe and America has been steady and Japan has barely taken part.As central banks lose authority, might credit-rating agencies play the watchdog role?

That should be bullish news for bank stocks, which typically enjoy a good ride at the end of a tightening cycle, as loan demand steadies and yields on their long-term investments outpace short-term interest paid to customers.