Sentence examples for brunt of the crackdowns from inspiring English sources
There were giants who would take the brunt of the crackdowns, people like [journalists] Akbar Ganji, Shams ol-Vaezin, Masoud Behnood.
The brunt of the crackdown has fallen on dissidents trying to form the opposition party, called the China Democracy Party.
Analysts said the Sunni Islamist group was torn between risking the support of its main financial backers - Syria and its ally, Iran - and supporting Syria's majority Sunni community, which has borne the brunt of the crackdown by the Alawite-dominated security forces.
"Not only will normal netizens bear the brunt of this crackdown, but many businesses will experience major internet disruptions as well.
But the brunt of the official crackdown has fallen on members of the Almighty God sect.
But analysts said Jisr al-Shoughour, one of the Syrian towns that bore the brunt of the government crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 1980s, is an area that has traditionally supported political Islam and is most likely hostile to the government.
The Black Souls felt the brunt of the first crackdown following the Aug. 31 slaying of Anthony Carter, 18, in the 4000 block of West Jackson Boulevard and the arrest of a Black Souls leader in the killing.
The stats reveal that NoS has borne the brunt of the police crackdown, accounting for at least 114 – or 71percentt – of all arrests, in comparison to 33 for unspecified substances and 13 relating to synthetic cannabinoids like Spice.
Some said they feared to leave their houses after 3 p.m. Others talked of persistent gunfire in a city that has borne the brunt of the government's crackdown on the uprising.
