"tightener" in Spanish

We will tighten our belts, even in this Budget procedure.

It might be best to tighten the screw barely more than you can tighten it with your fingers.

It then often only needs something trivial to tighten the noose.

First, a further tightening of the Stability and Growth Pact will not be enough.

In my eyes there is a carefully considered compromise on this question in the text and I honestly find the constant attempts to tighten the thumbscrews on this point increasingly irritating.

The effect of the new directive is to tighten up health standards, as a result of which only 8% of bathers are expected to contract an illness.

Accordingly, I support the tightening of the standards and do not back the rapporteur's proposal to weaken them.

Can we tighten-up the contracts granted to these bodies?

Perhaps we will manage to tighten up the timetables a bit.

I will be tabling an amendment to the Rules of Procedure to try to tighten our procedures on this point.

One of these concerns tightening up the system of trading preferences.

to tighten up

I would like to ask you if there has ever been consultation within the Council to tighten up this code of conduct or to make it more easily enforceable?

The amendments concern the need to tighten up the supervision of cross-border banking groups.

In the light of these realities, a general tightening of the right of immigration is needed.

Perhaps this House, too, should take another look at the directive and tighten up the framework, as Mr Grosch said.