The integration test has also been tightened up.

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.

Economic growth has been between 6 and 7 per cent for three years, the financial and legal framework has been tightened up, the national currency exchange rate has been stabilized, inflation has been brought under control, and peace and security have been restored in most of the national territory.

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.

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

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

Let the affluent man spend out of his affluence , and let he whose provision has been tightened spend out of what Allah has given him . Allah does not task any soul except according to what He has given it .

Let the affluent man spend out of his affluence , and let he whose provision has been tightened spend out of what Allah has given him . Allah does not task any soul except according to what He has given it .

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

Inflation follows, so policy is tightened and growth slows.

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

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

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

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

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

In recent years, the central government has tightened its control over the banking sector, undermining the financial system s development, not least by impeding banks ability to assess credit risk.

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

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.

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

Correa, who has tightened the screws on his country s press, hardly stands as the flag bearer for the libertarian tradition of the press that Assange, the poster boy of stateless journalism, represents.

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

Moreover, Israel, the occupying Power, has tightened its comprehensive siege on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the entire Palestinian population.

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

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

South Korea has tightened its military alliance with the US, Japan has backed away from a move to get the US to move its Marine airbase out of Okinawa, and India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, have drawn closer to the US.

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.

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

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.

Worried about worsening inflation and a budding real estate bubble, the People s Bank of China (PBC, the central bank) gradually tightened its monetary stance.

The cap rate could be higher, or it could start higher and be gradually tightened, or it could vary with an individual s income level.

Disruptions in oil production in the Gulf of Mexico in September 2004 further tightened supplies, as did geopolitical tensions in Iraq, Nigeria and Venezuela.

In order to control inflation and real estate bubbles, the central bank tightened monetary policy and the government refrained from another round of fiscal stimulus.

Putin and his entourage tightened the screws on Russia s people over the past decade, and faced almost no resistance to their claims to unchecked power.

As 2007 ended and 2008 began, it was clear that lending standards had tightened and the era of mega buyouts had come to an end.

The UNCC secretariat also stated that it maintains a high level of security and had tightened its security policies to meet ever increasing security demands.

Since there has been no rise in inventories, there has been no speculation.

In fact, it has been found within every population that has been studied.

In both cases, she tightened the safety belt on the two rides on her own even though she is three years and a few months old.

But Russia s pressure on Georgia has been even heavier and has scarcely been noticed.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

Today, Côte d'Ivoire, which has been listed among the emerging countries of Africa, has been brought to its knees, but has not yet been felled.

It was only at the end of the 1970 s that the Fed, under its new chairman, Paul Volcker, tightened monetary policy and caused inflation to fall.

For example, economic sanctions, to which Iran is very sensitive, could be tightened, with a commitment not to resort to military force facilitating Russian and Chinese approval.