Sentence examples for tightening limits from inspiring English sources

It fits the administration's avowed interest in limiting the size of commercial banks by tightening limits on their market shares.

He also supports reinstating an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and tightening limits on the capacity of some ammunition magazines.

Attacking Chinese protectionism now has bipartisan support in Washington Germanyy and the United Kingdom joined the United States this year in tightening limits on Chinese investment.

Executives at J. P. Morgan said yesterday that they were tightening limits so that the bank would no longer risk so much capital in a single industry or on a single borrower.

He has also called for reinstating the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, and tightening limits on the capacity of some ammunition magazines, which, as its own measure, enjoys more support from lawmakers than an outright ban of assault weapons.

The bill would revamp New York City's campaign finance system for the first time since it was set up in the late 1980's, tightening limits on contributions and increasing the size of subsidies that the city would give candidates for their campaigns.

For starters, it should tighten limits on executive compensation for bankers who have taken taxpayer money.

The recent security crackdown that tightened limits on carry-on luggage serendipitously proved her point.

In 1996, lawmakers reversed a 1992 initiative that tightened limits on local campaign contributions, and in 2001, they overturned a measure that established term limits.

The EPA last September proposed new standards for future power plants, and will tighten limits for existing power plants next June.

[C4.] Pfizer Limits Canadian Sales Pfizer tightened limits on sales of its products to Canadian pharmacies in an effort to reduce imports by United States consumers.