Sentence examples for clampdown of from inspiring English sources

They have mounted a pre-emptive clampdown of a severity rarely seen in recent years.

Whether it would have survived the Stalinist clampdown of 1936 is questionable, though Alexei Tolstoy, whom Stalin admired, was to remain an official figure throughout the dictatorship.

Judging by the video footage and photos distributed via the internet, despite the brutal clampdown of the last six months the opposition does not appear frightened.

But unlike the Tories – who say they would do it through a combination of spending and welfare cuts and a further clampdown of tax avoidance – the Lib Dems say they would seek to raise at least £8bn through additional taxes.

Although he had been a leading liberal at the reforming Vatican council in the 60s he was a leading figure in the general clampdown of theological dissent after the convulsions that followed it.

In a reflection of growing anxiety in Europe over the use of Islamic symbols, a committee of Belgian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ban the wearing of burqas in public, paving the way for the first clampdown of its kind on the Continent.

To have this kind of clampdown on any kind of external challenge is a very frightening place for a government to have got itself into".

The searches are part of a broader clampdown on opponents of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.

Egyptian rights activist say the prosecution of the witnesses illustrates the role of the judiciary in a broad clampdown on defenders of human rights and political opponents of the military-backed government.

Its investigation will be seen as a clampdown on some of the excesses of the game in Spain, with regulators seeking to end the unlawful use of public money to fund some of the world's richest clubs.

The number of visas being issued had fallen following a clampdown on abuse of the system, she added, but said there was still a "huge amount of more work to do be done".