Sentence examples for too tightened from inspiring English sources

Once the Protestants took over in the northern countries, they required parental permission — Rome, too, tightened its rules — but well after the Reformation children were still challenging their parents' wishes.

At some point, I, too, tightened my embrace.

He forced out the head of Ford Motor Credit, too, tightening lending terms five years ago and resisting the temptation to get into the mortgage business that had been so lucrative for GM's former captive finance company, GMAC.

Banks, too, have tightened their financing demands and generally will not lend unless 30 to 50 percent of a building is sold.

Kerry's deeply recessed eyes, small as an elephant's, appeared more than usually narrowed in those days, and his smile, too, had tightened into the sort of skeptical wince that a cartoon dad displays to signal his endurance of adolescent noise.

"They loosened too aggressively in 2009-10, toohtened too aggressively in 2011, and are now treading a fine line in pursuing measured easing," he said.

If you have too much trouble sticking to this or get too depressed, tighten up in general but allow yourself a small budget for impulse items - one to five dollars depending on how you're doing with bulk necessities - and then just weigh those for what you want most even if it's just taking your last two dollars to Starbucks afterward.

If you're too slow tightening the jibsheet again and the boat bears off the wind too much, don't panic.

Indeed the danger is of too much tightening in the short term.

Private colleges, too, are tightening their belts — turning down thermostats, scrapping plans for new gardens or quads, reducing faculty raises.

In these economically difficult times, when even the patrons of high-end concierge services are opting to fly first-class instead of hiring private jets, we, too, must tighten our thrift-store belts.