Sentence examples for tightened about from inspiring English sources

I wondered what it was I'd seen before the word tightened about it.

Another study showed that the arrest rate of mentally ill people rose five-fold in the first eight years after the rules tightened about whom was allowed into mental hospitals.Tougher sentencing policies are also pushing mentally ill people towards prison.

But that tightening – about a week before Church's arrest – did not prevent Church's prolonged detention without a lawyer, nor the later cases where lawyers were unable to enter.

Place the DrumDial next to the first lug and tighten about a half turn.

Wrap the loop under the tenderloin and tighten about an inch from the last loop.

Instead, he offers a sharp stump speech, tightened to about six minutes.

After the election the financial screws were tightened instantly about his neck.

As courts have handed down longer sentences and tightened parole, about 75 prisons have started hospice programs, half of them using inmate volunteers, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

She denied it, and Fox found no "corroborating evidence," but the incident led to a tightened policy about contacts between contestants and judges.

As more evidence surfaced, Commissioner Roger Goodell and the N.F.L., to their credit, have recently tightened policies about mandated recuperation from concussions and begun to study helmets and medical information.

A brief report on the Up Front page last Sunday reported on a dispute at Chatham Court, a condominium complex in Chatham, where the management has tightened rules about where owners are permitted to let their dogs run.