Sentence examples for brutal crackdowns from inspiring English sources

Bashar, the president, swings between brutal crackdowns and vacuous concessions.

In his approach to the Brotherhood, Nasser alternated between periods of accommodation and brutal crackdowns.

Hundreds of tribal elders were taken from their homes and killed in a series of brutal crackdowns.

For years it had to endure the plots of the colonial-era secret police, brutal crackdowns, and the ebbs and flows of repression and wary accommodation.

She noted that Lukashenko was awarded the championship just days after one of his most brutal crackdowns following elections in December 2010.

These were downgraded in 1988 and then all but broken off in the early 1990s as punishment for the government's brutal crackdowns on the democratic opposition.

On Thursday, the brutal crackdown went even further.

A brutal crackdown on Kurdish and southern Shia rebellions begins.

"This brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters is undermining Malaysia's claim to be a moderate democracy.

"The military's road map is increasingly clouded by its brutal crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood".

In March, there had been riots in Tibet, followed by a brutal crackdown by the authorities.