The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.

Ignorance smothers like a noose.

Tighten the defences! They're coming!

You must tighten the knot.

You must tighten the knot.

Tighten this screw.

A hangman s noose did not await them.

Tie the balloon to the bottle noose to fill it with paint

Yes, the Federal Reserve could tighten monetary policy.

It is the noose that ensures that Cuba remains immobilized and poor.

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

Mum couldn t take any more and put a noose around her neck.

The state continues to tighten the screws on the military industrial complex.

He fashioned a noose out of the bed sheets and hung himself in his cell.

The acceleration began in 2013 as labor markets started to tighten.

According to Pavlensky, people s fears and needs are commonly used to gain control over them The fear of punishment and fear of losing your belongings are the main management tools. And, as for one s needs and craving for things, they just tighten the noose of submission and obedience

Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.

Now all you have to do is tighten the screw, and Bob's your uncle.

The Israelis seem to believe that their only option is to tighten the screws on Gaza.

But when a noose is thrown around the neck of Roger, nearly everyone in the audience let out very real gasps.

The US Treasury strongly encouraged Asia to tighten fiscal policy during its 1990 s crisis.

The Ministry of Energy will tighten requirements for suppliers of turbines for electric power plants

To fix its domestic problems, America must tighten its budget, not drive down the dollar's value.

Protesting taxi drivers are trying to pressure the government to tighten enforcement against unlicensed car hire services.

If the control over media continues to tighten, the peace South Sudan hopes to establish may be short lived.

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

When people see high inflation, they conclude that the economy is precarious, so perhaps they should tighten their belts.

The Fed is not prepared to raise interest rates or tighten reserve requirements to restrain economic overheating in Shanghai.

Saudi power and US acquiescence managed to stifle democratic agitation in the Gulf, but the region s dynasties cannot expect to slip history s noose once and for all.

The blog says that the event failed to achieve its goals and might actually have pushed the government to tighten its grip even more.

The fifth option is to tighten fiscal policy and reduce budget deficits with the aim of lowering the high interest rates that drive the inflows.

Twice in the last ten years, national governments have explicitly given the EU the authority to tighten constraints on their subsidies to failing airline companies.

The European Commission spent the last three years trying to tighten the exchange rate criterion, which would make it an insurmountable obstacle for eurozone candidates.

So we need to tighten the feedback loops and create stronger incentives for behaviors that advance the common good, including that of future generations.

Noting the desire of the two organizations to consolidate, develop and tighten the ties that exist between them in the political, economic, social and cultural fields,

If a tightening of margin and minimum capital requirements does not deflate a bubble, regulators can tighten some more.

The Fed no doubt fears that if the principle of requiring a formal rule is accepted, Congress could tighten the requirement, forcing a more restrictive monetary policy.

In countries like Rwanda, people know this only too well, which is why they have been so eager to tighten the net on HPV.

Once they peak and begin to decline, lending conditions tighten, and banks find themselves repossessing houses whose value does not cover the value of the debt.

Meanwhile, most other eurozone countries have lately been forced to tighten fiscal policy, thereby reducing or eliminating their current account deficits.

This would push up inflation rates significantly, forcing the US Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy, thereby quite possibly undermining America s recovery, which remains unsteady.

Admittedly, the IMF s panel would have to look past America s current hypocrisy. The US Treasury strongly encouraged Asia to tighten fiscal policy during its 1990 s crisis.

And China, seeking to tighten its grip on Tibet, has worked to control the traditional process of finding the reincarnation of any senior lama that passes away.

On the contrary, it is as close to a no brainer as such decisions can be Now is not the time to tighten credit and slow down the economy.

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.