The government has kept a tight rein on what - and who - can enter Baba Amr.
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Tillerson's chief of staff, Margaret Peterlin, has also kept a tight rein on all communications with the secretary.
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Mr Gordhan had kept a tight rein on spending and stood firm against corruption, while working doggedly to keep South Africa's debt from being downgraded.
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A. Since the iPhone arrived in 2007, Apple has kept a tight rein on its mobile operating system and only allows it to work on its own hardware — making it proprietary or "closed" software.
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The elder Hernandez kept a tight rein on Aaron and his older brother Dennis, who was known as D. J. Both Hernandez brothers were renowned for their muscular physiques, competitiveness and talent at football and basketball.
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Spain's conservative People's Party (PP), forced out after six years in government in a no-confidence vote that followed a slew of corruption cases involving PP members, kept a tight rein on spending to cut one of the euro zone's highest public deficits.
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The company beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly profit by 211.17 cents per share as it kept a tight rein on medical costs across its businesses, but the new 23.1 forecast of $2220.26 to $14.40 per share raises the midpoint from its prior outlook by 55 cents.
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For weeks, as the virus spread in China and then beyond, U.S. officials kept a tight rein on screening: Only people who showed symptoms and had traveled to China or had a known exposure to another patient would be tested, and for the most part only by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The following year, the newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Warner Bros. for "revolutionizing the industry with sound".Thomas (1990), p. 66. Despite Warner Bros.' new prosperity, Jack kept a tight rein on costs.
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Peter also kept a tight rein on Graf's personal life. Social invitations on the tour were often declined as Graf's focus was kept on practicing and match play. Working with her father and then-coach Pavel Složil, Graf typically practiced for up to four hours a day, often heading straight from airports to practice courts.
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His position on domestic policies was conservative or reactionary, and newspapers were mostly liberal; they attacked his defiance of the elected assembly. However, his success in wars against Denmark, Austria, and France made him highly popular, and his establishment of the German Empire was a dream come true for German nationalists. Bismarck kept a tight rein on the press.
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It was the repeated renewal of the very conception of realism that made this style dominate Russian art throughout its history. Realist tradition gave rise to many trends of contemporary painting, including painting from nature, "severe style" painting, and decorative art. However, during this period impressionism, postimpressionism, cubism, and expressionism also had their fervent adherents and interpreters. The restrictions were relaxed somewhat after Stalin's death in 1953, but the state still kept a tight rein on personal artistic expression.
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Because he was a forthright speaker who could be blunt in his opinions and did not enjoy the personal rapport with legislators that prior Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird had, his relations with Congress were often strained. A majority of its members may have approved Schlesinger's strategic plans, but they kept a tight rein on the money for his programs. As for the Pentagon bureaucracy, Schlesinger generally left its management to Deputy Secretary of Defense William P. Clements.
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Helen attended finishing school at the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. Frederick kept a tight rein on his daughters, forbidding them to date and warning them that "the boys were only out for their money". Helen became the "favored daughter" after May eloped at age 21 with a non-Catholic salesman, a move that estranged May from her family for decades. Upon their father's death in 1933, Helen, who still lived at home, received $14 million from his estate.
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But Lyons main focus was on the saloon car which he continued to develop until his last and proudest achievement, the XJ6 of 1968. During his time as managing director of Jaguar, Lyons could be best described as 'autocratic' and kept a tight rein on the company. It is said that board meetings were rare until the 1960s. He was responsible for the styling of every new model introduced (although the C-type, D-type, E-type and XJ-S were designed by William Heynes ).
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Chief Inspector Paul Stritch, a fast track university graduate, was abrasive and not afraid of being confrontational with those in the station. He was Phillip Cato's short-term replacement at Sun Hill, transferring from Scotland Yard where he lectured senior officers on the issue of public order. A man of discipline, he always stuck rigidly to the rules and kept a tight rein on his officers. He also had a faultless knowledge of police procedure and could sometimes lack tact when telling older, more experienced officers, what to do.
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Under Cook, "the establishment ran like clockwork... everything was well-documented; there was a lot of open discussion; and everything operated on a very short time scale." Cook kept a tight rein on the work through the Weapons Development Policy Committee, which he created in April 1956. The consensus of scientists who worked on the project was that Britain would not have developed the hydrogen bomb without Cook, although Cook gave the credit to Penney. Cook was present as the scientific director of the Operation Grapple nuclear tests at Malden Island in May and June 1957, and the successful thermonuclear test at Christmas Island in November 1957.
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