Sentence examples for tightening many from inspiring English sources

After Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, Washington started trimming and tightening many social programs.

With economic distress widening and school budgets tightening, many districts are increasingly focused on making sure that enrolled students belong in the district.

A statewide wave of Republican victories would be shocking, but even if that does not happen — and there are signs that some races are tightening — many are surprised by the fact that there are so many tough races at all.

As venture capital financing and advertising money tightens, many companies are fighting to survive.

As standards are tightened, many of the reckless practices that have become the norm in corporate lending will be abandoned.

"The Times has tightened many safeguards and added others... so I feel assured that the mass production could not occur today".

But since then, the industry has tightened many of its operating rules, including those requiring systems to keep their neighbors apprised of their problems.

As immigration laws tightened, many swindlers, usually of the same ethnic group as their victims, began exploiting fears of deportation by offering help in obtaining visas and green cards in exchange for exorbitant fees.

In later years, as border security tightened, many Ecuadoreans paid enormous sums to migrant smugglers, or coyotes, who secreted them into the country on unsteady boats, or through safe houses and across the Mexican desert.

As travel tightens, many companies are now able strictly to enforce formal travel policies that used to be easily circumvented by favored employees who insisted in staying at higher-priced hotels than the policies officially allowed.

And as budgets tighten, many states are questioning the cost of incarceration -- like the $40 a day Wisconsin paid for each of its inmates here -- and the utility of locking up nonviolent offenders.