Expenditures have been tightened and prioritized.

The warlords have tightened their grip on the civilian population and have organized a business.

He tightened the noose and... then what?

Other emerging countries, like Peru, have tightened domestic prudential regulations with the same aim in mind.

The integration test has also been tightened up.

Inflation follows, so policy is tightened and growth slows.

Laid off construction workers tightened their belts, as did homeowners.

Tightened controls on import and export operations at border crossing points

The siege, in place since July, some four months ago, is tightened.

The Fifth Committee apos s work practices should certainly be tightened up.

Many of them thus tightened monetary policy in 2011, with consequences for growth in 2012 that have carried over into this year.

Industry would benefit enormously if energy efficiency standards were demanding and continuously tightened.

Having been burned by the crisis, banks have tightened their lending standards, and will now be subject to more stringent capital and liquidity requirements.

In the occupied Syrian Golan, Israel has also tightened its grip on water resources.

In other words, the embargo has been widened, tightened and intensified at every level.

Adjust the middle screws to remove any twist caused when the screws were tightened

Hu s government has also tightened controls over the media. Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.

32. As noted in paragraph 19, UNITAR has significantly tightened its budgetary and financial controls.

Sanctions will remain in place and will be tightened until conditions for their lifting set by the United Nations and the European Community have been met.

Resolution 787 (1992) of 16 November 1992 tightened further the sanctions imposed by resolution 757 (1992).

Keep steady! and the grip tightened. A frantic desire to free himself took possession of Kemp.

The procedures followed by the travel agency in releasing tickets and travel advances have been tightened, so as to ensure that these reach the staff member concerned.

But why has the PBC tightened monetary policy so much? The Chinese economy is not over heating.

Finland tightened its immigration regulations in 2004, following closely the restrictive stance taken by Denmark in 2002.

To be sure, Russia has tightened its control of the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

A research commission on honour killings had been set up and the relevant laws had been tightened.

But the more that Hamas and others attacked Israelis, the more the Israelis tightened the siege on Gaza.

Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

The method surrounding the issuing of Entry Visas for Barbados has been considerably tightened up. Barbados' missions abroad have been advised to issue visas where the circumstances are exceedingly clear.

IEEE 754 2008 has tightened up many of these, but a few variations still remain (especially for binary formats).

The Government and Parliament of the Netherlands therefore believe that coercive policy within the judicial system should be tightened.

Following his formal rise to power in 2014, President Abdelfattah Sisi and his government have curtailed democratic freedoms, tightened the grip on press platforms, and limited the role of civil society.

Naturally, monetary and fiscal policy should be tightened, but that is difficult when Putin is trying to placate the population.

The drastic fiscal adjustments of the past three years were sustained, or even tightened, in most countries of the region.

That notwithstanding, because of the events which occurred on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America, those measures have been tightened extensively in our national harbours berthing deep sea vessels.

The current negotiations are likely to fail, and even tightened sanctions may not stop Iran from trying to build nuclear weapons.

Tightened controls on the import and export of chemicals susceptible of being used in the development of weapons of mass destruction

6. The drastic fiscal adjustments of the past three years were sustained, or even tightened, in most countries of the region.

Yoav Hess asked that the rules be tightened so that soldiers might only shoot if their lives were in immediate danger.

It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.

Over the past 25 years in Europe, unemployment rose as monetary policy was tightened and interest rates were raised to fight inflation.

As the crisis struck, capital flowed out of developing countries to shore up damaged balance sheets in advanced countries. Credit tightened sharply.

During that time, Morocco had tightened its grip on Western Sahara, arresting hundreds, if not thousands, of Saharans, as Amnesty International had shown.

Where restraints such as banding or straps are used, these shall not be over tightened to cause damage or deformation of the package.

345. On 4 March 1994, the Israeli authorities are reported to have tightened the closure of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and prevented Palestinians from entering Jerusalem to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque.