But that accord was promptly rejected as too lax by the Constitutional Court, so the politicians, in consultation with the church, had to tighten it.
As our budgets tighten, it is essential for the Government and its grant recipient partners to do more with less and to target waste, fraud, and abuseof taxpayer dollars.
Congress should let the Fed issue its own debt, which would give it scope to tighten monetary policy without disorderly sales of the illiquid private debt it has taken on.
It is too much to ask people to tighten their belts twice, as it were, figuratively and literally.
Ford has to tighten quality control as it delivers 20 new vehicles this year.
"You don't want to go out there and really freeze because it will tighten up your muscles, " Khabie says.
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The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said on Thursday that it would tighten oversight of Apple and other specified electronics companies.
Last year, the DOE announced it would tighten regulations barring recruiters from getting paid based on how many students they sign up.
Mr Bondevik's team ignored the country's central bank, which had pleaded with it to tighten fiscal policy to stop the economy overheating.
It has also indicated that it may tighten controls further if required.
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On Monday, the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, both bank regulators, slapped sanctions on JPMorgan for the trading loss and ordered it to tighten up its risk management procedures.
In March Mr Neumann was one of 11 Republicans who blocked a 14% increase in the budget that pays for the various House committees: if Congress expected the rest of the country to accept belt-tightening, it should tighten its own belt, he said.
This means it is more expensive and less lucrative to have a sharp-eyed editor review, tighten and question the content before it is posted.
You have to cut, tighten and swap to get it right. 140 characters is a sentence scythe.
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This has global implications, as it will further tighten food supplies in countries already racked by civil unrest.
If monetary policy has not been sufficiently easy to promote faster growth, the solution is not to tighten policy but to make it easier.
For the same reason, it wants to tighten up licensing rules, to make sure that airlines operating in the EU are financially in good shape.
But the furious debate and challenges faced by gun control advocates in many states are a reminder of just how difficult it is to tighten gun laws, even after the most horrific tragedy.
In a time of great need, when our families and our nation are finding it necessary to tighten our belts and be more responsible with how we spend our money, we can't afford to waste taxpayer dollars.
Stocks put together a strong rally Friday, as investors pounced on word of lackluster second-quarter economic growth as a sign that the U.S. Federal Reserve was unlikely to raise rates at its Aug. 8 meeting, which would mark the first time in more than two years that it did not tighten monetary policy.
The April 26, 27 Fed policy meeting discussed the possible need to tighten money supply rather than liberalize it.
Since it is about to tighten fiscal policy, the Bank of Japan is unlikely to put up short-term rates yet.
The BOE said the annual rate of inflation will remain above its target for longer than expected, but it won't tighten monetary policy and risk derailing a recovery.
But basically, New Hampshire tried to tighten the law, tried to make it more difficult for young women to get abortions.
To tighten campus security, the college says it wants staff, students or visitors not to be "dressed in a manner which makes individuals unrecognisable".
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It has enabled them to tighten their collective controls by pooling information in a single computer and by getting their customs police to co-operate.
The prosthetic hand of the future would also, like a real hand, tighten its grip on an object when it feels that it's about to slip, Loeb said.
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He is a free-scoring batsman, and rather casual with it so unless he can tighten up his technique, he looks destined for a place lower in the order.
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