tightening

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• Accordingly, Stepien has reportedly been working to tighten the campaign’s belt — which has included cutting back on TV ads in several key states.

• Take its Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature in Safari, which it has continued to tighten.

• Even as revenue streams tightened, this year’s Resilience Awards finalists refused to panic — or to think selfishly.

• Health care is also a highly regulated business, and restrictions on the use of telehealth, some of which were relaxed during the pandemic, could be tightened.

• She thinks having a fingerprint verification might tighten security of the ballots even more.

• The grasp on the sabre would tighten; the quiet eyes would flash.

• I tried to relax too, but I felt my stomach tighten and I began to sweat.

• Some media reports say Turkey has begun recently to tighten some controls in the border region.

• Democrats want to tighten disclosure laws (as with the proposed DISCLOSE Act) but have blocked raising contribution limits.

• Congress passed the Helms–Burton Act to tighten the sanctions regime and write it into the law.

• In that instant I felt fingers tighten on my arm, tighten till they bit into the flesh, and I was pulled back into safety.

• I felt her grasp tighten about my neck, and her firm body crowd against me as we both sank down for an instant.

• But the touch only seemed to make the great living knot tighten, and after a try Morgan ceased.

• The cap should have a square nut for a wrench to tighten or unscrew the cap.

• The doctor, peering after him with smoldering eyes, felt his finger tighten on the trigger.