Sentence examples for before the crackdown from inspiring English sources

It wasn't long before the crackdown began.

"There were no medical personnel or ambulances around before the crackdown," he said.

Before the crackdown the Swiss found offshore private banking highly profitable.

Two days before the crackdown, the army arrived in bulk and the atmosphere changed radically.

Before the crackdown, the rial was selling at about 40,000 on the open market.

Those assets seized are worth far less than they were before the crackdown.

A week before the crackdown, Mr Castro denounced James Cason, America's top diplomat in Cuba, as a "provocateur".

Mr. Bao was an adviser and speechwriter for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief before the crackdown.

Before the crackdown, he said, 24 of 200 drivers were observed either using a hand-held cellphone or texting.

The last plea was conveyed to the Egyptian authorities on Tuesday, hours before the crackdown was unleashed.

In the last month the police issued an average of 335 citations each weekend, up from 15 before the crackdown.