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To make tighter.
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Please tighten that screw a quarter-turn.
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To become tighter.
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That joint is tightening as the wood dries.
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To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
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If the government doesn't tighten the money supply, inflation is certain to be harsh.
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To raise short-term interest rates.
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The Fed is expected to tighten by a quarter-point.
His grip tightened instinctively around her.
Her throat tightened as she spoke.
He tightened his grip around her.
Gabriel's throat tightened at a second thought.
Her grip tightened on the phone involuntarily and it shot out of her wet hand, bouncing once on the ledge before plunging over the bluff.
His grip tightened around her, and she resisted the urge to push him away and flee.
Her chest tightened at his words, but she nodded.
Her throat tightened at the words.
His arms tightened around her as she tried to squirm away.
He watched Dusty, whose grip tightened on the wheel as he muttered curses.
He tightened his grip slightly.
His grip tightened, and she stilled.
His grip tightened around her, but he didn.t bite her.
Her throat tightened, and in the end, no words came out.
She watched as he meticulously saddled Ed and tightened the cinch.
His grip tightened, and she stopped.
Taran said nothing, simply tightened his grip around her.
Yancey's yes flashed and his jaw tightened.
Bordeaux frowned and then his jaw tightened.
She tightened her grip on the wheel, assuming he spoke to Damian.
Darian stood obediently, and Damian's throat tightened again to know his brother was at his side.
Damian's throat tightened, and his eyes misted at the sight of his brother.
Her throat tightened, understanding the honor despite his nonchalant delivery.
Her throat tightened at the memory of the night she met Gabriel.
Remembering Lori's car, her stomach tightened.
Gabriel's arms tightened around her body, his chin resting on her head.
Her chest tightened again, and she sipped more of the warming liquid.
Whatever they discussed, Romas's brother was getting more pissed; his grip on her tightened until she gave a verbal, "Let me go!"
A'Ran's grip tightened before falling from her.
She clutched at him, and he tightened his grip around her, dragging their bodies together.
Similar to Brady, there was no remorse in his admittance, and her throat tightened.
She tightened her arms around his neck and kissed him softly.
Then the muscles in his leg tightened and she stepped back, allowing him to dismount.
He tightened his grip until their bodies were pressed together, determined to feel her soft curves.
Taran's jaw tightened as he took in the right side of her face, which blazed red as if struck.
They were so sweet to me before… Her throat tightened, and she trailed off.
His fingers tightened on her arm as he swung her around to face him.
His fingers tightened around her hand.
His grip on her forearms tightened, and he pressed them into the sand.
His grip on her arm tightened.
Barrel cranes are usually fitted with band brakes, consisting of a brake rim with a friction band placed round it, the band being tightened as required.
On all sides it was felt that the Italian alliance must be tightened; and one of the last, best acts of Nicholas V.s pontificate was the appeal in 1453 to the five great powers in federation.
Subsequently, by obtaining from the Tsungli-Yaman a long lease of Port Arthur and Talienwan and a concession to unite those ports with the Trans-Siberian by a branch line, she tightened her hold on that portion of the Chinese empire and prepared to complete the work of aggression by so-called " spontaneous infiltration."
The special cable T is now tightened again, and lifts the bottom of the bucket so as both to close it and to close the space between J and K, by allowing J to rise back to its initial place.
A collar is provided, which when tightened on the vertical axis, otherwise free to move, holds it rigidly in position with respect to the plate PP. To this collar is attached a slow-motion screw, working against a reaction spring, by which the plate rr can be rotated through a small arc. The upper plate carrying two, three .or four verniers vv is attached to a vertical coned pillar passing through the centre of the larger pillar and rotating in it; this plate can be clamped to the lower plate by means of the screw C, and can be rotated with respect to it by the slow-motion screw d.
F = T1 Ti = T1 (I ef9) Ta(ef 1)j When a belt connecting a pair of pulleys has the tensions of its two sides originally equal, the pulleys being at rest, and when the pulleys are next set in motion, so that one of them drives the other by means of the belt, it is found that the advancing side of the belt is exactly as much tightened as the returning side is slackened, so that the mean tension remains unchanged.
The equations 65 and 66 are applicable to a kind of brake called a friction-strap, used to stop or moderate the velocity of machines by being tightened round a pulley.
The earliest picture of a press shows roughly the construction to have been that of an upright frame, the power exerted by a movable handle, placed in a screw which was tightened up to secure the requisite impression, and was loosened again after the impression was obtained.
The tension which has been relaxed will again be tightened; there will be a gradual resolution of things into elements, and of elements into the primary substance, to be consummated in a general conflagration when once more the world will be absorbed in God.
She recognized the blond Guardian, and her chest tightened.
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