Sentence examples for tightened one from inspiring English sources

The Fed tightened one restriction on lenders, banning them from penalizing homeowners for paying off their loans ahead of schedule.

There were two bows in the case, and Phoebe tightened one and started tuning.

Before the rules were tightened, one Army major who had commanded an infantry company said, "firefights in Afghanistan had a half-life".

One type of torque handle has two arms attached to the head, which carries the socket that fits the bolt or nut to be tightened; one arm carries the torque-indicating scale and remains fixed relative to the head, while the other arm carries the handgrip and is bent, relative to the head and the scale, when a bolt is tightened.

The problem is the failure to properly tighten "one or more" rear suspension bolts.

This raises the possibility that tightening one part of the welfare system may end up shifting claimants onto other forms of welfare payment.

Demands to "tighten one's belt" are brandished about by officials with fat necks and ruddy faces, who for decades haven't known what a refrigerator with more frost than food looks like.

For those complaining of a "loose" hole, fixing many of those underlying problems will naturally tighten one's anus; when you remove one or more pieces of the anal pie, as it were, its circumference will naturally be smaller when it's repaired.

Thus, tightening one parameter may require relaxing the other.

The final nuts and bolts are currently being tightened on phase one of the Lake Kivu energy project.

As competition for funding and users ultimately tighten, one-dimensional consumer applications that are characteristic of the West may pave the way to multiple functionalities in the pursuit of additional revenue.