Sentence examples for a crackdown over from inspiring English sources

Twenty years ago, with graphic video games still a nascent technology, manufacturers faced similar threats of a crackdown over violent games.

After a crackdown over the past few months that has left at least 45 people dead, mostly killed when troops opened fire on crowds, this was understandable.A committee of party leaders and trade unions says the protests must go on.

Some 150 of the city's 30,000 police officers have been jailed on corruption charges during a crackdown over the past seven months, police officials in Mexico City said yesterday.

The police arrested one of India's most powerful regional politicians, a federal minister and hundreds of local leaders today in a crackdown over a bribery scandal in southern India.

The vendor will probably be fined, officials said, in part of a crackdown over the last year on those who buy produce from neighbors or packinghouses and sell it as their own at certified farmers markets.

Coming on the heels of a suicide bombing in Grozny that fall, the attack raised concerns that the Islamic insurgency in Chechnya was again growing after a crackdown over the past decade by Kadyrov, who has been accused of using brutal methods in his effort to stamp out Islamic violence.

In December they promised a crackdown on over-invoicing and other such scams.

Mr. Dolmatov, Ms. Rybachenko and Mr. Maglov were all casualties of a government crackdown over a series of protests in Bolotnaya Square, which has a long history as a site of repression.

If the ruling autocracy suddenly gives way to the public will, radical Islamist groups could force a frightened military into a crackdown or take over and crush dissenting voices, and the country will be no more democratic than it was before (and potentially a lot less friendly to the United States).

It also called for the release of members of the democratic opposition, many of whose members are still in prison after a major crackdown over the past year.

He wrote columns criticizing government repression and corruption, and others condemning moves by protesters to march on the royal palace and barricade the country's main highway -- acts that eventually provoked a sweeping crackdown over the last three weeks.