Sentence examples for tightening here from inspiring English sources

Opinion polls, which have given Mr. Obama a narrow lead, are tightening here in Colorado.

The script remains basically the same, with a little tightening here and there.

After success at Qusayr, the government is tightening its grip here.

That is because though Iran finds itself under increased financial pressure from tightening sanctions, officials here argue that their fundamental approach has essentially worked.

The operator turns this knob, here, tightening the second plate until the patient's scrotum is compressed to a thickness of about a quarter inch, providing extremely high quality images......

And the E.P.A., in a paper published this year, cited studies showing that the law had been a modest net creator of jobs through industry spending on technology to comply with it.Let's be clear here: tightening environmental regulations in ways that require companies to spend rather than hoard profits is not really like smashing windows in order to give work to glaziers.

The tightening dog collar here belongs to Adam (Andrzej Chyra), who – after several muttered-about transfers – has been stranded at a rural retreat for teenage tearaways, where he finds regular woodland runs can't burn off a growing sense of isolation.

The absence of tightening and fixation here could well explain the lack of correction of the lid cheek area in their results.

They police capital flows by banning some trades, imposing quotas on others, lifting a price control here or tightening a registration requirement there.

With the contest here steadily tightening, it's voters like Dawn who will make the difference: I believe you have to vote, if you don't vote you have no right to gripe.

Last-minute appeals, ostensibly to tighten a bolt here or there, should be seen for what they are: last-ditch attempts to kill the bill.