With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening.

But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.

With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening. But, thanks to gas supplies from neighboring Azerbaijan, Georgia has not yet been strangled.

But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare earth exports it wants to force high tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies.

A leaflet on marine litter, entitled Tightening the noose , was also published recently by UNEP. As mentioned earlier, in order to address the global and transboundary problem of marine litter, an interdisciplinary, multisectoral and holistic approach should be taken.

The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

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He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

The Bundesbank is also tightening credit at home.

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At the same time, sharply elevated unemployment and subpar income growth have combined to tighten the noose on over extended consumers.

But monetary tightening would weaken already slow growth.

Sound judgment is needed regarding the speed and timing of regulatory tightening.

But inflation remains high or rising, so more tightening is imposed.

At that time, both domestic investment and exports required immediate tightening.

But when and how the Fed will begin tightening monetary policy remains unclear.

WASHINGTON, DC American foreign policy stands on the brink of substantial belt tightening.

A hangman s noose did not await them. This was an important sign for Poland s neighbors in the Soviet bloc, which took its example to heart.

They have already been tightening the screws on credit growth for several months, with positive effects.

European leaders have so far offered no solution to the growth conundrum other than belt tightening.

If Greece still had its own currency, the authorities could devalue it while tightening fiscal policy.

The timing of the inevitable policy shift back to tightening depends on overall inflation, particularly house prices.

Since then, Iran has responded to incremental tightening of international sanctions by building more centrifuges.

If central banks are tightening and long term rates aren t rising, one needs some explanation.

They defied their Lord 's messenger , so He seized them with an ever tightening grip .

They defied their Lord 's messenger , so He seized them with an ever tightening grip .

The mix of Chinese policy tightening, however, needs to shift much more decisively toward higher interest rates.

But, with budget tightening around the world, demand for Asia s exports is expected to continue to falter.

And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord , therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip .

And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord , therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip .

The good news for Asia is that most of the region s monetary authorities are, in fact, tightening policy.

The only effective anti inflation strategy entails aggressive monetary tightening that takes policy rates into the restrictive zone.

In a state of secrecy and lack of transparency, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently approved a new cybercrime law that further tightens the noose on Palestinians' freedom of expression and privacy online.

In the previous tightening cycle, which began in 2004, it took the Fed two years to normalize the policy rate.

We therefore express concern and reject the new measures recently implemented by the US government aimed at tightening the embargo.

If there is no movement on these fronts, there will likely be pressure in the US for tightening sanctions.

But, given the large adjustment needs, it is not politically feasible to do everything, including painful fiscal tightening, immediately.

The government has taken a first step by tightening its own budget and spending less, especially on distortionary subsidies.

There was no incompatibility between tightening controls over the nuclear fuel cycle and expanding the use of peaceful nuclear technology.

In exchange for this liquidity support, Greece will be forced to accept painful fiscal tightening and falling GDP.

Because of the lagged effects of monetary policy and the need to manage expectations, early tightening by the Fed would be appropriate.

But a rising euro pushed higher by excessively early monetary tightening by the ECB implies more real appreciation, further undermining competitiveness.

So, are we in 1936, and does the budgetary tightening contemplated in many countries risk provoking a similar double dip recession?

Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities that is, printing money could counterbalance fiscal tightening.