Sentence examples for tightened this from inspiring English sources

But the government's overall fiscal position has actually tightened this year.Redirecting an economy as big as China's towards domestic consumption takes time.

Perhaps a more unassuming genre director would have tightened this movie's cables a little, so that it had more tension and less revulsion.

As inflation has fallen, and the labour market tightened, this case has been growing weaker: the last quarter of 2014 saw the first significant wage increase, in real terms, for five years.

It's been the Europeans and the Asian allies and the rest of the world that has tightened this sanctions net, that has made it very, very difficult for Iran to do business.

The slide of the caliper was properly tightened; this is to avoid a shift in the jaws of the caliper thereby bringing about errors due to parallax.

Cells were selected under the constraint that the first and second ligands needed to be bound, but could be bound by either molecule (subfunctionalization possible) in simulation A. The second simulation (simulation B) tightened this constraint and required both ligands to be bound to the same molecule (subfunctionalization not possible).

Texas continues to tighten this one up.

We tighten this leather strap around his waist, and this one around his neck.

"These are areas we're tightening up before this starts next year, and I believe we will be able to tighten this up," he said.

Mr. Finley's concerns highlight the difficulties officials face as they race to tighten this country's 5,000-mile 5,000-mileorder.

Residents can now water their yards only three days a week, before 11 a.m. and after 7 p.m., and the restrictions are to tighten this winter.