China has long kept tight control over its main banks.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are highly disciplined organizations, exercising tight control over their political and military wings.

It creates cost control and cost reduction pressures from the start, leading to greater efficiency.

In addition, the military s role as guarantor of stability, and its tight control of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal, the army s crown jewels, will continue.

Money was tight.

The most effective strategy would provide tight control over Afghanistan's borders with neighbouring countries by strengthening existing and establishing new anti drug security zones.

The authorities strategy is not new establish tight control over the leading publishing platforms and fill them with propaganda and spin to shape online public opinion.

Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme cost changes, 2004 2005

Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme cost changes, 2006 2007

Quality control will enable higher standards to be set, quickly and at reasonable cost.

And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.

Indeed, the opinion polls remain tight.

Shanghai Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.

We are of the view that tight export control regimes are crucial instruments in the efforts of States to prevent both State and non State actors from acquiring WMD related material.

Like I say, it's a tight knit community.

and tight fisted when good fortune visits him ,

Comment by the Administration. UNRWA has, on occasions and under tight control, allowed the advance allotment of funds to certain projects when its project cash position permitted, in order to expedite project implementation.

Their votes could prove crucial in a tight contest.

The same methods of quality control later turned Japanese factories into world leaders in cost effectiveness and production quality.

SBS also suffered from tight budget constraints and staff shortages.

Major fraud at the Paris office cost the bank around 28 million, showing the weakness of audit and control mechanisms.

Furthermore, to keep operating expenditures under control UNOPS must reorganize its internal operations and restructure its cost base in 2006.

Housing payments are higher because mortgages are of short duration (an average of ten years) and tight loan to value restrictions force borrowers to seek additional higher cost loans from second tier deposit institutions and non financial companies.

Tight deadlines have been established for review under the Kyoto Protocol.

Likewise, he has been unable to get Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost control proposals.

The main limitations of this method are the cost of fabrication and the lack of control over positioning of individual dots.

Taking the lectures seriously even adopting tight budget frameworks can be counterproductive.

Given Nigeria s history of sit tight military dictatorships, that is real progress.

Indeed, illegal immigration is larger when restrictions to legal migration are tight.

Even though it had to pay interest premiums and was running a current account deficit, Mario Draghi (the leading contender to take over the ECB this autumn) kept his central bank s lending under tight control throughout the crisis.

For Greece and Portugal, staying in the eurozone will be a tight squeeze.

Any change in government in Havana would leave him in a tight spot.

Tight national caps on Target balances could provide the right incentive to comply.

Lower government spending, together with tight monetary policy, are contributing to greater price stability.

The inclusion of Samba version 3 allows tight integration with Windows clients and servers.

This requires the adoption as soon as possible of a tight calendar of implementation.

The annual cost of specific disease control in the next three years is perhaps 6 billion, and another 6 billion per year for health system expansion.

Includes the Immediate Office of the Director of Administration, Aviation Safety Unit, Budget and Cost Control Unit, Administrative Coordination Unit and Administrative Planning and Policy Unit.

In view of the need for structural adjustment, the PBC should maintain a tight monetary stance.

The current government has pursued tight fiscal policies, resulting in balanced budgets and low public debt.

The material used was either wool or tight weave cotton for wind resistance and fire protection.

a Includes Office of Aviation Safety Unit, Budget and Cost Control Unit, Administrative Planning and Policy Unit, Board of Inquiry Unit and United Nations Volunteers Support Unit.

You know, it's been kind of in this sort of tight box for a long, long time.

So monetary policy has since remained tight, with high interest rates contributing to slowing investment and consumption.

A tight contest between the two Democrats, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, has yet to be resolved.