11.   And he has set out to tighten central control, years after Beck began trying to rein in the sprawling company.

12.   And the fact that other governments have waited until this week to ban meat imports from Europe and tighten controls on travellers looks pretty lax.

13.   And the Saudi authorities have taken steps to tighten controls over bank transfers and charity funding.

14.   As a result of their investigation, the State Comptroller agreed to tighten controls on the pension system and hired a detective agency to screen applicants.

15.   As Congress tightened control over block grants, administrative savings disappeared.

16.   Ashrawi said Israel has also allowed the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to continue and has tightened its control over Jerusalem even more.

17.   At a recent ethics conference at Harvard Medical School, professors from Harvard and MIT debated the merits of loosening restrictions on researchers versus tightening controls on their work.

18.   Banque Leumi France, by contrast, a far smaller bank also under investigation, asserts that it did tighten its controls after receiving the police tip-off.

19.   Border controls have been tightened, and security forces have interrogated relatives of Yemenis believed to have received training at terrorist camps in Afghanistan.

20.   - After years of regulatory freedom, some states are tightening their controls of charter schools amid concerns about academic quality.