Sentence examples for as a crackdown from inspiring English sources

The Serbian government is trumpeting this as a crackdown on organised crime.

Authorities must tread carefully, as a crackdown would be likely to provoke greater violence and chaos.

Security services intensified what campaigners had already described as a crackdown unprecedented in recent years.

The deal involves access to Libya's oil and gas riches as well as a crackdown on undocumented migration.

In Geneva, the United Nations also condemned what it described as a crackdown against civil society groups.

The council also demanded a return to public executions for killers as well as a crackdown against graft.

It's as fierce a crackdown as the brutal days under ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, whose police arrested 52 gay men in one raid, most at a floating nightclub called Queen Boat in 2001.

A national plan against corruption is being proposed, as is a crackdown on fuel and cigarette smuggling.

As for a crackdown on derivatives accounting or net capital rules, there's no telling where that could end.

No administration has undertaken as big a crackdown as Mr. Obama's, although administration and state officials deny they are doing it as a favor to labor.

The race was rescheduled for the fall, but team directors protested, fearing that they would be seen as endorsing a crackdown on dissidents.