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1. Where did you tighten them?
2. I have to tighten these bolts.
3. The prefectural police chief tried to tighten his police officers' discipline.
4. Power should be conferred on the Commission to tighten the quality arrangements of the Member States and in particular to define the criteria for estimating the trade not collected through Intrastat.
5. In its White Paper ‘European transport policy for 2010: time to decide’, the Commission indicated the need to tighten up checks and sanctions particularly for social legislation on road transport activities, and specifically to increase the number of checks, to encourage the systematic exchange of information between Member States, to coordinate inspection activities and to promote the training of enforcement officers.
6. in order to preserve external competitiveness, and to contain the current account deficit and inflation, significantly tighten fiscal policy and urgently implement a binding medium-term fiscal framework, revise the composition of expenditure to increase the share of growth-enhancing spending, inter alia, by reducing and redirecting state aid to horizontal objectives, and keep wage developments in line with productivity growth,
7. Wheel fixing tightening torque; drawing attention to the importance of this aspect and the need to preferably use a calibrated torque wrench; Instruction regarding the necessity to re-tighten the wheel fixing after 50 km of driving; References to the use and mounting of hubcaps, if applicable;