When we talk about bank regulation, we talk about restricting credit.

These organizations have the power of reducing government spending, restricting credit, cutting wages and promoting foreign investment in all the countries that borrow from them.

Computerized monitoring systems tell suppliers when to restrict credit to unhealthy businesses.

Increases in interest rates restrict credit to businesses.

Financial institutions are restricting credit and the central bank wants lower real estate prices, he said.

Under Yeltsin's stabilization program, interest rates were raised to extremely high levels to tighten money and restrict credit.

They say his actions have fueled the credit crunch, the tendency of many banks to restrict credit even to companies planning potentially profitable projects.

Raising rates will restrict credit and slow the economy, thus reducing inflation.

King reckons that banks aren't just restricting credit to SMEs.

However, restricting credit in a period of speculative construction boom was considered politically impossible.