Sentence examples for tightening about from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

This is not about short-term belt tightening but about experimenting with the values needed to shift to carbon-lite living.

It added: "It's not a cost-cutting exercise, it's about tightening up the ship".

The idea that child abuse can be thwarted by tightening laws about home education has been around for some time.

"But that does not mean these two factors — a tightening worth about 1.5 percent of G.D.P. — will not reduce payroll growth in the months ahead".

Vince Cable, the party's Treasury spokesman, speaks of tightening by about 8% of GDP over five years once the economy is recovering (rather than the government's 6.5% over eight years).

Instead, we have had budget tightening since 2010 (about 2.9% of potential GDP) and therefore inadequate growth to bring us back to the levels of employment before the great recession.