Sentence examples for clampdown against from inspiring English sources

Dismissing this, government critics maintain that the security clampdown against Isis is just for show to impress the US and other international powers.

The clampdown against the tool, called Tor, came in the days leading up to the 60th anniversary of China's "national day" on October 1.

MEP Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the liberal group in the parliament, highlighted anti-terrorist laws, which "have been used in a brutal clampdown" against journalists.

In several corrupt countries – such as Egypt – western backing for the government's clampdown against opposition figures falls under the argument of "the devil you know".

Many critics of the arrests have called it a pretext for a clampdown against government opponents, pointing out that actual coups remained unpunished while a broad spectrum of suspects in an alleged plot were being rounded up.

Attending a press conference to announce the move, Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, said the clampdown against his "patriot comrades" had been motivated purely by Golden Dawn's meteoric rise in the polls.

Mega sporting events traditionally go hand in hand with police clampdowns against the local population.

Campaigners against racism in football said the recruitment campaign had echoes of nationalist activism in previous decades, but that a clampdown by authorities against hooligan elements around stadiums would make enlisting football fans more difficult this time.

There the 50p tax cut was measured not against the rise in stamp duty or the clampdown on avoidance but against the freezing of the pensions threshold.

A pair of hot pink sneakers worn by a Texan senator campaigning against a clampdown on abortion rights have become the bestselling shoe on Amazon.com and an unlikely feminist symbol.

The Barcelona star and his father have fallen foul of a major clampdown in the country against suspected tax evasion as it attempts to plug its vast deficit, projected this year to top 6 per cent of its entire GDP.