Sentence examples for tight purse strings from inspiring English sources
Shoppers rejuvenated their wardrobes and dusted off their barbecues as the sun came out and loosened previously tight purse strings.
After the sale, Michael McGinnis, who runs Phillips's contemporary art department worldwide, said he thought buyers' tight purse strings had to do with uncertainty in the world's financial markets.
The placement of these drones, which can fly for more than 28 hours at a time, shows both America's continued security interest in Asia at a time of tight purse strings and Japan's growing willingness to accept new military hardware in the country for use against looming neighbors.
In the Senate committee Thursday, members lamented an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have given more money to a program that would supplement heating and cooling costs for low-income people, but that, in this new era of tight purse strings, would pay for it by cutting into education grant money, as a "Hobson's choice".
His blog, 15%, chronicles the tight purse strings tendencies of certain customers, in an effort to publicly shame their stinginess.
After a decade of tight purse strings and general apathy, Haslam's Tennessee uber-masculine energy is a breath of fresh air.
More recent data, once available, are almost certain to show even tighter purse strings, analysts say.
Many private equity firms that have hit the road to try to raise new funds are facing lukewarm receptions and tighter purse strings from investors.
Smaller houses with tighter purse strings often rely on the contacts of their PR agencies or more-creative methods to get acquainted.
For the resource-rich Gulf donors, the issue is not tighter purse strings, as high oil prices have helped maintain wealth, but political ties to new, unpredictable regimes.
Hartenstein is a very bright guy (an aerospace engineer so almost literally a rocket scientist) but its going to take a very different formula at the LAT given beyond-tight purse strings and the lack of a natural competitor like cable.
