Sentence examples for tightening standards from inspiring English sources

Before leaving office, the Clinton administration issued an executive order tightening standards for arsenic in water.

It has pulled back on new lending, tightening standards on mortgages and home equity loans.

Other companies like Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, are tightening standards.

With China's reputation having taken a hit in the United States, resistance to tightening standards seems likely to fade.

In fact, many Republicans favor tightening standards for Head Start, and the reforms of the program announced by Mr. Obama on Tuesday date back to the Bush administration.

Quality is being raised by tightening standards and certifying builders, says Alexandre Cordeiro of the ministry for cities, which runs MCMV.

(Congress has not tightened standards for cars in more than thirty years).

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday to tighten standards governing fine particles, commonly known as soot.

In both cases, pressure from ordinary Chinese prompted the government to tighten standards.

The percentage of United States branches of foreign banks that tightened standards rose to 64percentt in October from 50percentt in August.

Increasingly last year, said Martin S. Fridson, chief high-yield strategist at Merrill Lynch, bank lenders tightened standards, squeezing the weaker borrowers.