This belt fits me too tightly.

The Team believes that the embargo could have more impact against this and other high priority threats, such as the use of man portable air defence systems, if it were tied more tightly into other counter proliferation and arms control regimes.

The first tied Saddam to Al Qaeda.

A tightly knit group of political consultants has helped Putin resolve his conundrum.

The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.

All of these elements can be tightly linked to a Poverty Reduction Strategy.

The kidnappers tied Tom's hands behind his back.

Yes, Dubai is certainly an autocratic state where finances are tightly and secretively controlled.

But China s monetary policy has been hamstrung by the tightly managed exchange rate regime.

Abonyad is a foundation very tightly connected to and actually run by the religious authorities.

But the truth is that Israel s hands have been tied.

Greatest number of points in matches between tied teams 5.

10 Müller, Villa, Sneijder and Forlán tied with 5 goals.

But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.

To the extent that executive compensation is tied to the value of specified securities, such pay could be tied to a broader basket of securities, not only common shares.

Until recently, their rulers had a common interest in keeping this Pandora s Box of borders tightly sealed.

I simply tied the end of a paintbrush onto a twig.

Russia s motivations are tied to the legacy of the Cold War.

In the final round, Iraq tied Syria 0 0 in Damascus.

Greatest number of goals scored in matches between tied teams 7.

Frequently it is tied to policy decisions to build sustainable cities.

For example, haptoglobin tightly binds to hemoglobin subunits, while hemopexin captures the heme when the hemoglobin releases it.

Additionally, DBA functions are often automated using restructuring tools that are tightly coupled to an active data dictionary.

Here mercury (Hg2 ) is bound very tightly to sulfur, but weathering slowly releases the mercury to the environment.

Cash was a musician who was not tied to a single genre.

It is often worn on one's person or tied around a tree.

It was as though those tightly coiled wires in my head had been disconnected and I could think clearly.

These large scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.

We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.

It is more likely that they are tied to the People s Liberation Army.

They ordered us to take off our clothes and tied our hands up.

The main practices investigated were resale price maintenance, tied sales and exclusive contracts.

The responses themselves cannot be tied to any specific numerical value or meaning.

By staying tightly focused in one place, Jonas tapped into the soul and the enduring human spirit that underlies this community.

Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

We Europeans are caught in an inescapable net, tied in a single garment of destiny.

For many years, their economic fate has been closely tied to that of the US.

But California s unemployment rate, 12.3 in November 2009, was tied for the nation s third highest.

Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is tightly integrated into the world economy, rendering the country vulnerable to the current global financial crisis.

These guys are not the startups they are the mentors, carefully solicited by Kelly from within the tightly knit Irish business community.

Speaking to Global Voices on condition of anonymity, one journalist argues that this is part of the king's tightly controlled media image

But now its concern is more closely tied to regional politics than to the Kurdish issue.

The culture of California is tied to the culture of the United States as a whole.

Soldiers forcibly entered the building, took the men and boys, then allegedly tied and beat them.