| Hopefully the tight-fisted owner will put that money back into the baseball team, as I believe there is a way for this team to contend soon. |
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| The tight-fisted laird intends to profit from his marriageable son and daughter, but his children have ideas of their own. |
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| Johnny comes across as a tight-fisted right winger, which by all accounts he was. |
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| The salary is low because it is set in the constitution and can be changed only with the approval of Texas voters, who are mostly tight-fisted. |
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| The most tight-fisted, scrounging, Scrooge-like people are to be found wherever I go. |
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| Here, his father comes across as a tight-fisted, big-hearted dreamer who always promised more than he could deliver. |
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| That makes Yorkshire folk the second most tight-fisted regional group, according to professional services firm Deloitte. |
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| And if me, an Aberdonian, and an extremely tight-fisted one at that, can part with 13 notes, why not? |
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| But farmers have been relatively tight-fisted given recent depressingly lower cash bids. |
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| The minister here in Ottawa will keep a tight-fisted grip on these and other local issues. |
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| The Commission's tight-fisted proposal on agriculture is rejected by the majority of the candidate countries. |
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| Now hospital bosses say they have been forced to increase charges to combat tight-fisted holidaymakers who park up then take a short taxi ride to the airport. |
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| A similar observation, however, could be made about tight-fisted conservatives who make campaign pledges they don't keep while local school taxes keep rising. |
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| You have to avoid the talkative ones, who spend hours nattering to the shopkeepers, and the tight-fisted ones, who are always haggling about the price of what they buy. |
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| To ensure that cash flow and productivity gains aren't blown away by stormy conditions, tight-fisted managers are squeezing value out of every cent. |
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| And by that I mean tight-fisted with your emotions. |
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| Mountains of data and whiz-bang technology are no cure for tight-fisted shoppers, of course. |
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| He cautioned that consumers could remain tight-fisted. |
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| But the problem isn't just tight-fisted banks. |
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| The different governments and parties that have been in power-whether Liberal or Conservative-were tight-fisted and delayed compensating all victims of tainted blood. |
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| We must not be mean and tight-fisted and we must not forget that the countries about to join the European Union have manpower in abundance but, unfortunately, limited resources. |
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| That may require that governments be able to get tight-fisted finance ministers to make some money available, because I think that would be the easiest way to do it. |
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| However, we all know that we need more solidarity too, even though the EU is sometimes more tight-fisted about making gestures of solidarity than about keeping a firm grip on security. |
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| If the Council wishes to demonstrate global responsibility, it must not be stingier and more tight-fisted than the Commission is and make cut-backs of more than EUR 2 billion. |
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| People originating from the province of Bururi are accused of being selfish, disdainful and full of themselves while those from Mwaro are perceived as tight-fisted and miserly. |
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| This agreement means that the most tight-fisted countries must make a contribution corresponding to the current EU average. The level of ambition must be higher, however. |
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| He runs Tunisia as a police state, where the country's large, Soviet-style press does little more than laud the despot and his tight-fisted regime. |
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| It has dragged its feet on the release of public information and has been excessively tight-fisted with information, suggesting that Canadians have no right to publicly oversee the activities of their government. |
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| The modish scoundrel of the past seven years the immoral banker outwitting inept regulators—has been edged out by a returning blackguard: the tight-fisted boss crushing the hopes of honest workers with miserly pay. |
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| Time and the discovery that the man she married was not just emotionally mean but graspingly tight-fisted have hardened her heart. |
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