Would you mind fastening my straps?

You bought the new girdles a size smaller.

Fasten your seat belts for a very bumpy ride.

I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders.

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

This is one of the conveyor belts with the thing going by, but then you'll see the ones up above.

Some did so because they felt poorer. Others did so because the banks, shocked by the collapse of the securitization business, stopped giving them home equity loans for consumption purposes.

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

Europeans are willing to tighten their belts, but they need to see a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of income and job growth.

By means of belts and rollers an operator can maneuver the ULD from the dolly cart, up to the aircraft baggage hold door, and into the aircraft.

They have their own belt color system, in which participants earn color stripes on the belt, instead of fully colored belts.

(h) Regional cooperation with neighbouring countries aimed at strengthening security belts in the region and countering the threat posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

(h) Regional cooperation with neighbouring countries aimed at strengthening security belts in the region and countering the threat posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

Now that we have a little bit of a review of oxidation and reduction under our belts, let's see if we can apply what we now, maybe, re understand to cellular respiration.

This is the paradox of thrift belt tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

The order of colors varies widely from school to school, but kyu belts are denoted with colors that in some schools become darker as a student approaches shodan.

(h) Regional cooperation with neighbouring countries aimed at strengthening security belts in the region and countering the threat posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

The Government promotes labour intensive infrastructure development for organized youth groups undertaking agricultural activities in green belts around urban centres, to absorb unemployed young people.

European leaders must move beyond the increasingly implausible mantra of belt tightening today full bellies tomorrow, and recognize that, at its core, the euro crisis is a political crisis.

If they succeeded at all, high interest rates would have induced them to tighten their belts, and their current account deficits, which in the case of Greece and Portugal exceeded 10 of GDP, would have diminished.

Apart from those countries that are threatened partly or completely by rising sea levels, global warming will primarily affect the desert belts and their already precarious water supplies.

At the same time, non state actors, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al Qaeda, have taken the place of traditional armies, and suicide bombers equipped with road side and car bombs or explosive belts have replaced guerrilla fighters with their Kalashnikovs.

Nevertheless, when you listen to the speeches of policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, you hear presidents and prime ministers say things like Just as families and companies have had to be cautious about spending, government must tighten its belt as well.