Sentence examples for they were tightened from inspiring English sources

In March, more than two dozen rods used to anchor the roadway to important earthquake safety structures cracked after they were tightened.

If they were tightened so only the explanation of new legislation or a new program qualified as official government advertising, the millions being spent on back-door political advertising could be used to increase public funding to the parties.

Later things eased up again, but then came the Czechoslovakian events in 1968, and they were tightened again.

Earlier this year, 32 of 96 bolts installed in 2008 cracked when they were tightened by construction workers.

A large number of banks also reported they were tightening standards for both credit cards and other types of consumer loans.

A majority of investment banks, pension funds, commercial banks and life insurers said that with the economy slowing, they were tightening their underwriting criteria.

But department officials have said that they were tightening controls by sending State Department personnel as monitors on Blackwater security convoys in and around Baghdad, and said that therefore there was no need to shift oversight to the Pentagon.

Executives at J. P. Morgan said yesterday that they were tightening limits so that the bank would no longer risk so much capital in a single industry or on a single borrower.

And officials at the Army Sustainment Command, the contracting authority at the arsenal, after meeting with AEY in late February, said they were tightening the packaging standards for munitions shipped to the war.

Festival organizers said they were tightening security for Ms. Kadeer's appearance on Saturday, when "The Ten Conditions of Love," a documentary about her activism and her family, is to be screened.

Police in Cleveland said they were tightening security plans for next week's Republican National Convention, which caps a political season marked by incendiary rhetoric and occasional violence at campaign rallies.