Sentence examples for tightened it was from inspiring English sources

"It was not that they weren't getting the hours they wanted at McDonald's, but as financial lending tightened it was becoming a real challenge.

However, Charles Duelfer, the head of the ISG and the report's chief author, said that by late 2001, when the international embargo on Iraq was tightened, it was clear sanctions would not have contained Saddam for much longer.

"It is not what we call Gürtel enger schnallen" — belt tightening — "it's not starving, it's not having less comfort or fun.

Now belts are being tightened it is only right that some of these are consolidated.

While the intro was tightened, it is hard to see how Mr. Laliberté's note to add an opening "Wow!" led to any major change.

But the heart of the dysfunction throughout the past eight years isn't that immigration laws have tightened, it is that they have become unpredictable, as new rules are introduced or scrapped.

As a yellow-naped Amazon, it is by nature curious, mischievous and destructive, and I concluded that now, with security tightening, it was being classified as a hazard.

But as the cap keeps tightening, it's expected to have a sharper bite.

It doesn't qualify as belt tightening; it's more like throat clearing".

With demand weak and the fiscal vice tightening, it is hard to see an imminent danger of inflation.

Talk may be cheap, but when the markets are falling, prices are rising and credit is tightening, it's a uniquely affordable indulgence.