Sentence examples for tightening anything from inspiring English sources

I want to hear no talk about cracking down on anyone or tightening anything up.

"We haven't tightened anything in particular".

Do not over tighten anything as this may cause leaks.

Don't tighten anything on your board too tight; the screws strip easily!

If you do, check the connections inside again and tighten anything that's not held in place firmly.

But the coalition of top rulers that includes him has, if anything, tightened controls in crucial areas like free speech.

Since the mid-1990's the Film Bureau has if anything tightened its grip on filmmaking, causing anguish and humiliating choices for many directors and sending some abroad, leaving others to stick with innocuous topics.

He wants it to drift toward our own time, hinting — and this is true to Pynchon — that the befuddlement of ordinary folk has hardly changed while "the ancient forces of greed and fear" have, if anything, tightened their clutch upon our lives.

Now the pact's conditions are causing particular hardship for the German economy, which needs anything but fiscal tightening.

Others are anything but, and the tightening polls suggest that the public is taking notice.

But if you think about the balance of risks, this is a bad time to be doing anything that looks like a tightening of monetary policy.