Sentence examples for crack down at from inspiring English sources

He has risked unpopularity before, by promising to crack down, at the behest of America and India, on the militants.

It is particularly perilous in financial services, where regulators will crack down at the merest whiff of impropriety.

Those attacks were blamed on Chechens, but afterward a theory began to circulate that the F.S.B. had bombed the buildings in order to give Putin, then the President, an excuse to go hard in Chechnya and crack down at home.

The round table took place exactly one week after Mr. Trump used a closed-door cabinet meeting to castigate Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, for failing to do enough to crack down at the border.

Jaime Lewis, chief executive of the Mountain Medicine medical and recreational marijuana business in Colorado and chairwoman of the National Cannabis Industry Association, said she expected states to fight any attempt by Washington to crack down at state level again.

They believe he has been using the Ukraine crisis to crack down at home and they fear for the future.

"He's isolated everybody who initially gave him goodwill," said a retired but still politically active general.Mr Obasanjo has been cracking down at any hint of secessionist dissent and has arrested a powerful Ijaw militant for alleged treason.

And the Russians are cracking down at home and rattling sabers abroad.

After the CBRC cracked down at the end of 2009, this pas de deux became more of a round dance.

This year, ahead of the Beijing Olympics, China wants no trouble, while North Korea has also cracked down at the border.

But the visit of Vietnam's president, Truong Tan Sang, follows a difficult period in which Vietnam's Communist government has cracked down at home, imprisoning bloggers, religious leaders and dissidents; curtailing labor laws; and again taking control of what one Vietnam expert called the "commanding heights" of the economy.