How To Use Loosening In A Sentence

Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
Proper torquing avoids elastic separation of the mating parts under load and resists gradual loosening over time.
Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting. Times, Sunday Times
There's almost no national ailment that he feels can't be solved, or at least distracted from, by taking off his suit jacket, loosening his tie and suggesting a good old-fashioned knees-up. You're the prime minister, Cameron. Please stop behaving like the David Brent of British politics | Sam Delaney

An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
Those with a materialist mindset seem quite comfortable in loosening up their evidential thresholds whenever it suits them. Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
The city's only gay nightclub, is currently loosening its entrance policy and opening up their doors to the straight public.
the loosening of his grip
It's a safe bet that the yob putting his dukes up has been soberly simmering all week, but in loosening his inhibitions, it has all come flooding out.
The commonest reason of revision of total hip replacement is loosening and osteolysis.
It will be intriguing to see how Brecht's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold.
Moors, whose feats were quoted by Mrs. Elliot to her grandsons; and, accordingly, is generally represented as bewitching the sheep, causing the ewes to keb, that is to cast their lambs, or seen loosening the impending wreath of snow to precipitate its weight on such as take shelter, during the storm, beneath the bank of a torrent, or under the shelter of a deep glen. The Black Dwarf
Yoga and breathing exercises help in getting rid of the spasm by loosening the muscles and maintaining balance of ‘prana’ throughout the body.
In spite of postmodernism's loosening of the modernist canon, the stigma against classicism remains robust.
Tumour of blood capillary gnawing flesh, in fluctuation jaw is bitten forcibly when tightening swollen content apophysis, after loosening, disappear.
The interlocking mechanism stabilized the molars, putting the lateral forces to work to scrape sharp, regular edges on the molar cusps rather than simply loosening the teeth over time.
Steam and smoke are rising in clouds from the audience of whistle-toters as the gospelised dance anthem Come Together is followed by the filling-loosening bass riff of Loaded, the group's l990 chart break-through.
All of it washed away like mud down a river, eddying and pooling in places, but loosening the tension, setting me free. Brush of Darkness
The chances of a loosening in monetary policy are slim while those price pressures remain. Times, Sunday Times
It certainly helped in loosening his lips about how he got involved in the project and what he's doing for it right now. Luke Goss Compares Superhero Film ‘Magdalena’ To ‘DaVinci Code With Substance’ » MTV Movies Blog
The only loosening occurs with a late botched suicide attempt, the result of depression after Cissy's death.
Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the straitjacket.
There are alternative actions which we in the North may demand of our governments in lieu of invasion, and these all tend towards loosening, rather than strengthening, the grip of empire over the South.
Would it be about tightening policy or loosening, that sort of thing. Times, Sunday Times
Only in Japan, a country which requires its workers to be devotedly institutionalised, is there a similar ritual of shared loosening of professional proprieties.
Not merely would it hit the flow of new projects, it would undermine the tax planning of existing American operations in Ireland, loosening the ties that bind them to what is, in economic terms at least, the 51st state of the union.
How would you link his notion of the time-image, with its loosening of the sensory-motor connection, to the jazz-image?
Like the loosening of a necktie, it signaled a relaxation into informality at the end of a meal.
Zu-tag squatted upon a great branch close to the bole of the tree and by loosening the girl's arms from about his neck, indicated that she was to find a footing for herself and when she had done so, he turned toward her and pointed repeatedly at the open doorway of a hut upon the opposite side of the street below them. Tarzan the Untamed
He carried it well, the only noticeable effects being a flush in his eyes and a loosening of his tongue to whimsical fancies and extemporized chants. CHAPTER XXIX
George Fowler, general manager of Superior Buick-GMC in Dearborn, Mich., says leasing is loosening up, making it possible to offer some smaller SUVs for around $300 a month. Car Buyers Likelier To Find Deals Later This Year
We can detect a loosening of the brush in some of Garofalo's other paintings, notably in the drapery and visually resonant landscape of the Suxena Altarpiece.
Another Instance of the strange _loosening_ nature of a violent jarring Motion, or a strong and nimble vibrative one, we may have from a piece of _iron_ grated on very strongly with a _file_: for if into that a pin _screw'd_ so firm and hard, that though it has a convenient head to it, yet it can by no means be _unscrew'd_ by the fingers; if, I say, you attempt to unscrew this whilst _grated on by the file_, it will be found to undoe and turn very _easily_. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
The reason that we did not treat the animals immediately after the nerve repair was to avoid the loosening of suture line on the skin caused by grasping the animals for gavage, which might cause serious inflammatory reactions.
Remove the top of the roof cowl by loosening the bolts.
One might disagree on how much deliberate fiscal loosening was needed.
The cost of borrowing has come down significantly with a loosening of monetary policy in the hope that injecting more cash into the economy would help revive struggling businesses.
Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting. Times, Sunday Times
The loosening of that policy for terrorism does create a grey area, but it's a sensible political tactic.
Would it be about tightening policy or loosening, that sort of thing. Times, Sunday Times
The runners are loosening up before the race.
During fruit softening, pectins and hemicelluloses typically undergo solubilization and depolymerization that are thought to contribute to cell wall loosening and disintegration.
Her hand was loosening his tie, his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh.
And China shows no signs of significantly revaluing its currency or loosening its fiscal policy - steps that some experts believe would be the best way for it to boost domestic demand.
I think I dished the wheel a little later than I should have, and I adjusted the dish mostly by tightening spokes on the one side instead of loosening spokes on the other.
Their finding might also call into question a common industrial method for loosening materials that have become jammed together inside hoppers.
Although the fourth fascicule had kept its place, it was not on this account preserved from the effects of the confusing changes caused by the loosening of the ligature, for between its two first leaves the remaining sheet of the third fascicule [85] found a place. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
The legal position and disabilities of illegitimates remained largely unchanged until late in the 20th century, unaffected by the family law reforms of the 1920s and the general loosening of standards during the two world wars.
The deputy leader is cautious about loosening the links with the unions.
The new Pilkington Activ glass is photocatalytic which means UV rays react chemically with dirt and organic deposits such as bird lime, breaking them down and loosening them from the surface of the glass.
The forefeet have extremely long and strong claws that are used for loosening packed earth.
The anticipated loosening of spending policy received mixed reaction from analysts Wednesday.
I can almost feel my carroty skin loosening at the thought…
He is loosening the soil in his garden.
And of course atmospheric belt loosening is not possible; there is no extra space to put our carbon emissions. Dr. Gary Ginsberg: Toxic Air: The Health Risks of Pollution
For all the time we spend on social media, our actual ties with real people are loosening. Times, Sunday Times
The tape adhesion must be distributed homogeneously without bubble, pore, adhesion, lami-nation, foreigh matter, crack of mica paper, reeling out of glass cloth, loosening of tape coiling, etc.
Along with this "collectivization" came laws loosening the marriage relationship and promoting divorce and infidelity. Southern Maryland Community Forums
Yet the government's worry about loosening the restrictions was not unfounded.
She shook her head, before reaching up and loosening her hair free of its holder.
But the most problematic aspect of his plan has been his role in loosening the criteria for accepting monetary donations to the Institution.
There seem to be two changes: a loosening of the link backward to an antecedent noun phrase, and a loosening of the link forward to a modified noun phrase.
By loosening capital requirements and pursuing regulatory forbearance, regulators hide the problem of an insolvent bank and hope that the situation will improve. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
My brain slowly began to click into gear and I started thinking about loosening his collar and laying him down.
Mel was clambering down a gentle slope, loosening bits of rocks and soil, towards what he supposed was the Cobalt River.
Accumulations of dust can be removed with a small vacuum cleaner after loosening with a dry, soft bristle brush.
Instead of running more public-sector deficits and loosening monetary policy, there should be a radical overhaul of taxes.
Derived from the prehistoric deposits of marine creatures, greensand is good for loosening-up compacted soils.
Without the basic repair capacity and priority, a specific induction can wait, loosening the link between the operating command and depot-level maintenance costs.
Radiographic findings of progressive radiolucent lines surrounding the prosthetic stem or areas of osteolysis also suggest prosthetic loosening or infection.
Those of us in the know would attend lessons with a screwdriver, tightening or loosening screws as necessary.
Yet if those to whom it is, or might be, would take it, -- if those who might give it, in many forms, _would give_, -- who knows what relief and loosening would come to others in the hard jostle and press? The Other Girls
Protestantism in the sixteenth century, if it could have been accepted in France, would have been a more edifying dissolvent than Voltairism was in the eighteenth; but it is certain that the loosening of theological ideas and the organization connected with them and upholding them, was the first process towards making truly social ideas possible, and their future realization a thing which good men might hope for. Voltaire
Instead the deputy prime minister proposes a loosening of the rules that will see company inspections capped to twice a year and an end to on-the-spot inspections. Nick Clegg to propose relaxing regulations for small businesses
In addition, the increase in production of the hormone relaxin (which the body uses to prepare for labor) causes a loosening of the connective tissue around those joints and creates instability.
With the gradual advance of the market-led interest rate process in China and the loosening of the interest rate restriction, interest rate fluctuates more greatly.
Blatherskite O'Loodheramawn, a barrel-chested, white-toothed athlete from Mullingar, welcomed the new loosening of restrictions.
Fry these until just colouring and loosening the sediment from the bottom of the pan.
The only loosening occurs with a late botched suicide attempt, the result of depression after Cissy's death.
Length is adjusted by loosening the knurled locking collar only a halt turn, after which the post adjusts to the desired height and is secured by another half turn of the locking collar.
There was no limitation of range of motion and loosening the screw.
People can still barely see improvements feeding through from the more recent loosening of the Chancellor's expenditure.
Can evolution explain the earthworm's activities of loosening, stirring up and aerating the soil to make it more fertile?
However, the deals are a sign that the major music labels are increasingly loosening their licensing policies for digital music.
Always dig to full depth before beginning to revet, as it is impossible to dig deeper afterwards without loosening the revetting. Military Instructors Manual
The ties that bind them together are loosening.
In a world where values spread along the currents of communication, it has always been commonplace for business leaders to say to Tibet activists that open trade with China will result in a loosening of China's restrictions on free speech, that the values of democracy and freedom will be alchemically infused into the Chinese system, that we will "change" China ... Josh Schrei: The Value Of Freedom, The Ugliness of Censorship: Google, the UFC, and China
To clean the scallops, prise the shells open with a knife, scraping and loosening from the flat shell.
Griselda among herbs, may be given with admirable effect in pottage, as a domestic aperient, "loosening the belly, helping the jaundice, and dispersing the tympany. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
If the government simply adds to the deficit, inflation could be triggered by this further loosening of fiscal policy.
Domestic conditions did not justify a loosening of monetary policy.
His summers here were spent in continual battle with loosening shingles, hidden leaks, rotting wood, and creeping damp; as the house struggled purposefully to return to the earth, he struggled tinily to prevent it.
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I grunted out while loosening my belt a couple notches.
Hereupon, the word being to disenthral the soul from it, must have the same effect upon it that the sword has upon the body, which is, by penetration and dividing the continuity of the parts; for every wound is properly division, an opening or loosening the compactness and closeness of the thing upon which the impression is made. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
She was on her knees beside him, loosening his neckerchief.
By the beginning of the '60s, television was loosening newspapers' monopoly on the news.
The President notified Congress when this program went on line and they appeared to be singularly uninterested in loosening FISA to allow surveillance of enemy telecommunications. Balkinization
Chris, who was still holding onto his best friend, gave me a questionable look before loosening his grip.
Accumulations of dust can be removed with a small vacuum cleaner after loosening with a dry, soft bristle brush.
A great enthusiasm filled the air as the armies spread out, loosening ranks, cavalry and footmen finding their way across the road and into the fields and woods.
The vertical and horizontal position of the rest can be accurately adjusted by loosening the locknuts and turning the adjustment bolts.
After 3 years follow - up , there was no recidivism and loosening of tooth but normal occluding relation.
Going into his chamber, and there loosening and opening his coat of armor, “I am not,” said he, “troubled, Cleopatra, to be at present bereaved of you, for I shall soon be with you; but it distresses me that so great a general should be found of a tardier courage than a woman.” The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
And moreover if, while the pain of the side persists, and does not yield to warm fomentations, and the sputa are not brought up, but are viscid and unconcocted, unless one get the pain resolved, either by loosening the bowels, or opening a vein, whichever of these may be proper; — if to persons so circumstanced ptisan be administered, their speedy death will be the result. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
The sturdy spade-shaped tool is great for loosening the soil in landscape fabric or plastic planting holes, or in beds when planting bulbs, corms or plugs.
However, while the Centre is moving towards liberalising and loosening controls on industry, it appears to be moving in the opposite direction and tightening controls and micromanaging education.
‘Er, hi Corina’, I greeted her meekly, my bowels loosening slightly.
The vehicle can be dismantled easily by loosening the bolts holding it together.
To clean the scallops, prise the shells open with a knife, scraping and loosening from the flat shell.
Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting. Times, Sunday Times
The loosening of the covenants will enable the company to complete a rights issue in the first quarter to firm up its balance sheet. Times, Sunday Times
She stretched out her body, her muscles loosening up from the long flight of last night.
The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.
The Sapphist described in the text would procure an orgasm (in gloria, as the Italians call it) by biting and rolling over the girl she loved; but by loosening the trouser-string she evidently aims at a closer tribadism the Arab The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
‘Okay, okay,’ gasped John, loosening his collar so he could get a better breath.
The foot stretcher is easily positioned to achieve these positions by loosening the 3 wing nuts and moving the foot stretcher along the adjustment plates.
The pivot rod is released by loosening a clevis screw on the lift rod assembly.
He turned to her without loosening his grip around her petite figure and displayed a mischievous grin.
There is scope for loosening life's stays. Times, Sunday Times
‘Ok,’ Amber replied, stepping back and loosening her grip on him before letting go completely.
When loosening the dipstick, see if there's any ‘give’ in the oil fill tube.
His current schedule would have the sturdiest workhorse loosening its collar. Times, Sunday Times
So there will be no loosening of controls on spending or public sector pay. Times, Sunday Times
By loosening a jack bolt or hydraulically dropping the springs with a switch in the car, the team can get the car closer to the ground.
The pivot rod is released by loosening a clevis screw on the lift rod assembly.
Domestic conditions did not justify a loosening of monetary policy.
He was loosening his tie as he spoke, messing his hair, making himself more party-worthy.
The loosening up of clothing for women in the 1970s, begun by "unisex" fashions and kicked into high gear by feminists and Lesbians, occurred not from women who tried to dress "like men" but by women who pointedly said "I'm dressing like a woman, this is how women dress" as they rejected the boxes. BROAD CAST AND UPDATES, 29 OCTOBER 2007
She shook her head in acknowledgment, and went to Glory, loosening the tied reins.
So there will be no loosening of controls on spending or public sector pay. Times, Sunday Times
It coincided with the rise of Thatcher and Reagan, and the loosening of capital restrictions world wide.
Rose, so far had loosening and disintegration gone on in her character, now was beginning to think her obstinate strait-lacedness about his books and her austere absorption in good works had been foolish and perhaps even wrong. The Enchanted April
-- The filter, which is shown in detail in Figs. 5 to 7, is formed of two semicylindrical cast iron shells, F, that are firmly united, and held by a strong iron band which is cleft at one point in its circumference, and to which there is adapted a mechanism permitting of loosening it slightly so as to facilitate the escape of the oil-cake. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
The model not only calculates the benefit from transferring more power energy in condition of unloosening security constraint, but also takes contingency risk into account.
Loosening makes the tanning agents, fats, dyestuffs and other substances, penetrate easily into the hide.
Moving, loosening or adjusting door springs must be done by a garage door serviceperson.
Allison Hayward, vice president for policy at the Center for Competitive Politics, which favors loosening campaign-finance limits, said the increase in fundraising is a sign of a healthy democracy. Records broken for fundraising
Gioffredi (_Gazzetta degli Ospedali_, October 1, 1895) has shown that some hysterical symptoms, such as mutism, can be cured by etherization, thus loosening the control of the higher centres. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
The chances of a loosening in monetary policy are slim while those price pressures remain. Times, Sunday Times
And the sadder they look (pages loosening from the binding — the worst!) the more beloved they are to me. William saroyan | part II « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
These are then put together with a bolt long enough to slide through the main body, and the crosspieces, and with a butterfly nut on the top to allow easy loosening and tightening.
And moreover if, while the pain of the side persists, and does not yield to warm fomentations, and the sputa are not brought up, but are viscid and unconcocted, unless one get the pain resolved, either by loosening the bowels, or opening a vein, whichever of these may be proper; — if to persons so circumstanced ptisan be administered, their speedy death will be the result. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
He is loosening the soil in his garden.
He tugged at the collar of his shirt, loosening his tie.
This will stretch and tone the arm muscles, while loosening the back and shoulder muscles.

How To Use Loosening In A Sentence

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