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Example sentences for: tightening

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Beyond their shock value, New York City's test scores made news because the state is undergoing a high-profile tightening of educational standards.
The Democratic campaign-finance scandal expanded while tightening around President Clinton.
The Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi said Thursday that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, was tightening the noose around him but would not yield to U.S. pressure to hand him over or banish him to a third country.
I took another cut in pay to work for him [at $5,000 a month]--at a time where we're all tightening our belts."
The Times lists what it considers the budget's leading features: money for hiring 100,000 new teachers, relief for farmers, more than $2 billion in basic medical research funds, funds for U.S. troops in Bosnia, tightening security at U.S. embassies, replenishing the IMF, and sending food to North Korea.