You must tighten the knot.

You must tighten the knot.

For the time being.

Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.

It looks as if Tom is trying to slow down the negotiations.

I haven't heard from him since then.

The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.

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

The natives destroyed the mission in 1817, as well as other missions in the area.

This is why you keep sacrificing virgins, and why your unicorn defenses are working just great.

That was when she committed the insolence of publishing her first articles.

His photos and videos document life at the end of Japan's affluent Bubble Economy 25 years ago.

It may all be in vain for the time being, as the major parties have shown little interest in discussing the Greens' policy.

She makes a decent living. But the economy in Uganda took a dip in the last year. Everyone s pocket is a little tighter.

The damage from the financial crisis is still ongoing, but stronger growth can heal many wounds, especially debt driven wounds.

And it's also, although the brain looks very complicated, things look complicated until you understand them.

Now, did my brother blame me for the period of belt tightening austerity his family had to face?

If recessions deepen, the social and political backlash against austerity will become overwhelming strikes, riots, violence, demonstrations, the rise of extremist political parties, and the collapse of weak governments.

In 1884, the French microbiologist Charles Chamberland invented a filter (known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland Pasteur filter) with pores smaller than bacteria.

I wanted to deny my identity for a long time, but it exuded through my pores, forcing me into submission through my gestures, my physique, when it came to dancing ... in so many things that I could not deny.

But microorganisms in seawater quickly colonize the membranes and block the pores, and controlling them requires periodic costly and chemical intensive cleaning.

More than 40 years before women in the US gained the right to vote, women labored in the Harvard College Observatory as computers astronomy s version of NASA s Hidden Figures mathematicians.

Having taken a medal on finishing, both at school and at the university, Karenin, by his uncle's help, started at once on a conspicuous path in the Civil Service, and from that time devoted himself entirely to official ambition.

That feature will encourage those who are not ill to become or remain uninsured until they have a potentially costly medical diagnosis.

South Africa has a vested interest in stability, and it can turn the screws on Mugabe s regime, much as it has refused to contemplate any form of sanctions because of their impact on the poor.

Human nature is such that voluntary actions, either by individuals or by nations, cannot be relied upon to lead to the essential constraints on profligate tendencies at such a large scale. So we need to tighten the feedback loops and create stronger incentives for behaviors that advance the common good, including that of future generations.

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

However, while waiting for the time when she could put her plans into operation on a larger scale, Kitty, imitating Varenka, here at the watering place where there were so many sick and unhappy people, easily found opportunities to apply her new rules.

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.

Monsieur Raffarin was right to say that austerity would result if France obeyed the Pact's strictures, but in debates over economic policy, the truth is seldom appreciated. Telling the truth is something best left to academics, whose squabbles make it difficult to discern who is right and who is wrong.

Monsieur Raffarin was right to say that austerity would result if France obeyed the Pact's strictures, but in debates over economic policy, the truth is seldom appreciated.

To the extent that this remains the case, countries will treat financial stability as a secondary interest just as they treated inflation when monetary policy was subject to direct government intervention.

They perpetuated our bloody political and ideological divisions until we were drowning in the stench of blood, to the point where some were ready to enter into an alliance with the devil just so this war would end.