tighten the rules. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
tighten the wire. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We winos are having to tighten, which is to say loosen, our belts. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
So I don't think anybody thinks the moment is to tighten is today. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Otis saw the youngster's expression tighten and knew it had nothing to do with the difficulties of the game. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Starfighter]
"In meets, I just kind of tighten up and don't do things correctly," he says. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Understated decathlete Pappas faces 10 the hard way] Reference
Thus it is that unloosen in the vernacular has the sense not of 'tighten' but of 'loosen'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
Should you choose to "tighten" the Civil War authenticity, I can recommend "The Bloodiest Day" in the Time-Life series. From Wordnik.com. [so I went to my writer's meeting today....] Reference
In the last 30 minutes of cooking, stir in the masa harina, a couple of teaspoons at a time, to thicken or "tighten" the chili. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
In 1986 when Amnesty was passed they promised to "tighten" the border, and enforce laws, same hollow sentiments by the same hollow shills. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwinked by the Most Extraordinary Combination of Circumstances] Reference
The race could tighten which is why it is still highly vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Raising Kaine - Front Page] Reference
Without exception, polls "tighten" in the final days of an election. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
I thought we could actually kind of tighten it up, clean it up here and there. From Wordnik.com. [toonzone News] Reference
Manager Brad Mills said Sunday he "just wanted to kind of tighten things up a little bit.". From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
Thus it tries to withdraw the stimulus or "tighten" money and credit - explaining that the overheated economy might produce inflation. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Reckoning Australia] Reference
"tighten" up a bit once the show shifted to the second house. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
"tighten" the area around the protest, but "there have been attempts to agitate the officers.". From Wordnik.com. [News & Observer: Home Page] Reference
吉 used for sound also usually adds an extra bonus meaning of something like "tighten" eg 結ぶ. From Wordnik.com. [Musings of a Drunken Monk: An open 日本語 question] Reference
The woman lowered her eyes; I saw her mouth tighten. From Wordnik.com. [Uncertainty-And Sweetness] Reference
All of this works to tighten supply, raise uncertainty and push up prices. From Wordnik.com. [Oil's Dirty Laundry] Reference
Zedillo's only strategy is to tighten interest rates, cut spending and pray. From Wordnik.com. [How It All Went South] Reference
NATO pledged to tighten the Kosovo border to cut off guerrilla supply lines. From Wordnik.com. [Going From Bad To Worse] Reference
The campaign to expand and tighten Kyoto now looks likely to fall short, too. From Wordnik.com. [How to Fix a Climate Emergency] Reference
Experts say Latin American governments should tighten access to their records. From Wordnik.com. [Those Prying Eyes] Reference
We did tighten the economy quite significantly at various times during the 1990s. From Wordnik.com. [The Oracle Reveals All] Reference
One fear is that he will tighten the definition of what it means to be a deadbeat. From Wordnik.com. [Learning From The Student] Reference
If we tighten our visa system, terrorists will resort to more cases of identity theft. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress America] Reference
Milosevic is notorious among Serbs for using crisis and bloodshed to tighten his grip on power. From Wordnik.com. [A Test Of Survival] Reference
Banks and investment banks may tighten lending standards again and impede any economic recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street’s Unraveling] Reference
Axelrod worried that the race would tighten in the late going as these voters came off the fence. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
"It's an attempt to tighten the circle around the most problematic areas and isolate these insurgents.". From Wordnik.com. [Hell to Pay] Reference
To correct the problems, the FAA plans to tighten background checks by adding high-tech fingerprinting devices. From Wordnik.com. [Checkpoint Checkup] Reference
The soldiers 'hands tighten around their M-4 light machine guns, fitted with laser scopes and grenade launchers. From Wordnik.com. ['Lord... Just Help Us Kill 'Em'] Reference
If global interest rates tighten, as seems likely, the region's high external debt service will come under increasing pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Plummet of The Americas] Reference
But with federal funding for research continuing to tighten and drug trials, it kind of seems that the money might be necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Opening The Books] Reference
Others, like Robert Coleman Elementary in Baltimore, made the move primarily to get boys to work harder and tighten up discipline. From Wordnik.com. [A Room Of Their Own] Reference
If banks "deleverage" by reducing loans to prime dealers, then prime dealers tighten up on hedge funds, which react by selling stocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Engine of Mayhem] Reference
Yuster insists that UNICEF never pressures countries to tighten their adoption regulations, and in fact gets involved only when asked. From Wordnik.com. [When There’s No Place Like Home] Reference
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