Sentence examples for As a clampdown from inspiring English sources

But Greece insists it can raise money through "non-recessionary" measures, such as a clampdown on tax avoidance.

Ken Livingstone compared it to the poll tax riot in London, and "friends" of China take care to describe it as the Tiananmen Incident or, at most, as a "clampdown".

Its investigation will be seen as a clampdown on some of the excesses of the game in Spain, with regulators seeking to end the unlawful use of public money to fund some of the world's richest clubs.

Malaysian police have arrested the eldest daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for alleged sedition on Monday, in a move slammed by critics as a clampdown on dissent.

His warning comes a few days before candidates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland get their A-level results, which are not expected to rise significantly and may even drop slightly as a clampdown on grade inflation continues.

Western governments have called the two-year sentences excessive and Kremlin critics denounced the charges as part of a clampdown on dissent under Putin, who won a third term as president a week after the Pussy Riot protest.

We can see this on issues such as immigration, where a clampdown backfired at the expense of our universities.

(As it is, a clampdown on avoidance in America seems to have deterred AbbVie, a drugs firm, from taking over Shire, a rival based in Ireland).

Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi, Opel and Mercedes diesel cars will be recalled as part of a clampdown on nitrogen oxide emissions, according to a German government official.

The family finally left Iraq after Abdulrazzak's father was called in for questioning as part of a clampdown on potentially dissenting academics.

BBC staff have been banned from taking first class trains, using taxis in central London and been told to use "public transport wherever possible" as part of a clampdown on expenses designed to help save £50m.