Sentence examples for systematically tightening from inspiring English sources
Hong Kong residents say that over the past few years, the central government has been slowly and systematically tightening its grip over the city, leading them to feel politically marginalised and economically squeezed.
Exploiting exogenous variation in electoral competition at the state level induced by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, our main finding is that ballot access rules have been systematically tightened in response to stronger electoral competition.
The Syrian military put the camp on lockdown in the spring of 2013 and systematically tightened its control over the influx of people, goods and food.
As a matter of fact, unstructured mass of proteins were systematically observed without tightening of the membrane at the usual position of tight junctions.
Regarding fixed-term contracts, in the past decade the frequency of measures relaxing conditions was almost systematically below that of measures tightening conditions, which may reflect, in a number of cases, a gradual adjustment to past reforms relaxing conditions for fixed term contracts with the implication of raising employment while at the same time creating segmentation.
Sir Andrew Witty, head of GlaxoSmithKline, backed by the Imperial College professor Jonathan Waxman, launched an assault on Nice at the weekend, calling it an agent of the government's "stampede for cost cuts", "systematically delaying" decisions on new drugs and tightening its criteria because that's "easier than closing hospitals".
Energy supplies are tightening.
Refastening or tightening service bracket.
They were tightening their budget.
Tightening now is unwarranted.
