Now, as a single mother, she kept a tight rein on things, she said.
As for JPMorgan Chase, it has kept a tight rein on risk, managed capital well and acquired sensibly.
Both of these factors are acting to keep a tight rein on any credit that could otherwise make its way into the real economy.
The problem, as Modou Sarr found, is that the start-ups are mostly peddlers who are unlicensed and illegal, and the city keeps a tight rein on the number of street-vending licences it issues.
You realize then why Mr McCabe keeps his Iago on such a tight rein, why, even at riotous moments during the drinking song, for example, a piece of regimental choreography which degenerates into homosexual horseplay his tunic stays buttoned to the neck.
His choice of prime minister is important because unlike Mr. Sarkozy, who kept a tight rein on day-to-day operations, Mr. Hollande has pledged to return to a traditional French division of power: a president who sets the broad agenda and a premier who implements it.
The security services are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and to have kept a very tight rein on the army.
In the opening few minutes we watch Dan dispensing sage parenting tips in print -- the movie's title is also the name of his advice column -- and keeping a too-tight rein on his three growing daughters.
The donation is a bigger deal now than it would have been a few years ago because Spain public finances are uncomfortably tight as the government there tries to rein in a huge deficit.
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