Tightening in example sentence

Every time a government, or a regulator, announces some new control, or a tightening of existing controls, there are threats from bankers that they will pack up and leave town, taking their Porsches and mistresses with them.

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She had a bleeding up in the brain, and that's been fixed with a little stent, a metal clamp that's tightening up the vessel.

And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.

And now I'm tightening lashes, shaped in hide as if around a ribcage, shaped like five bowstrings.

You filter in the sensation of your grip tightening on the wheel, you feel your blood pressure rise, you hear the squeal of your brakes, and you notice the expression on the face of the other driver as he pulls in front of you and quickly looks away.

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