Sentence examples similar to tight- from inspiring English sources

Economically, tight state controls have fostered stagnation and popular resentment while hindering foreign investment.

Economically, gas exports enable the government to maintain its tight grip on power.

He has maintained tight control over both wings of the republican movement since the early 1980s.

Yemen says it has foiled an al-Qaida plot to blow up oil pipelines and seize some of the country's main ports, but security remains tight and hundreds of armoured vehicles have been deployed to protect key targets.

Following the 1979 Revolution and end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, the vision was carried forward despite tight economic sanctions.

Unlike many parts of the country where women have shed traditional regional attire, the women of Qeshm and Hormuz mostly wear the colourful bandari pants, loose at the top and tight at the bottom with vibrant embroidery.

The Conservative peer said that was critical of the strategy of the no campaign in Scotland and it was clear that the outcome on 18 September was "going to be very tight".

This time, filming on a tight budget in Hungary, Strickland borrowed butterfly collections from Budapest's museum of natural history and then faced a big decision: should he hire expert advice from a dominatrix or a lepidopterist?

The ball broke to Ozil, who buried it from a tight angle.

About Bear Stearns, for which JP Morgan predicted $33bn of potential exposure, a former JP Morgan executive was similarly proud in 2008: "we were very pleasantly surprised to see that it was a very well run, tight operation with good risk controls and a risk discipline that was very similar to our own," he said.

Nor do you see many cars flash on to a footpath behind a tight knot of pedestrians and proceed to ring their bell furiously until everyone jumps out of their way.