Sentence examples for crackdown means from inspiring English sources

The crackdown means that the Union now has little room for maneuver, according to Mr. Smolar.

"No one seems to know what this crackdown means, but I feel my business will have to change," said Susie Hollands of Vingt Paris, a property advisory and management company.

"Am I supposed to live in the subway?" For others, the crackdown meant more than just losing a place to sleep.

The security crackdown meant to keep terrorist hijackers out of American flight schools has forced thousands of foreign students to train overseas, weakening the country's global dominance in aviation training, officials in the industry say.

In a crackdown meant to quell a movement of youthful activism, many of the arrests appeared to target students and young people, watchdog groups reported.

The crackdown, however, meant that Kim Kun and his friends, who gave their ages as 17 even though they all looked about 12, often went hungry on this side, too.

So we have ended up with the worst of all possible worlds: aggressive briefing about crackdowns, more means-testing and more people on benefit.

The tensions with India that the crackdowns were meant to ease wavered earlier in the week, easing after Pakistan choked off militants' routes into the disputed territory of Kashmir but rising after a Western diplomat suggested that about 300 members of Al Qaeda were operating in the area.

Antidopers justify their crackdown as a means of protecting athletes from potentially dangerous enhancers, and because the use of bio-boosters is unfair to nondoping competitors.

IN a hearing held in Manhattan last month by the State Assembly's Transportation Committee, Raymond P. Martinez, the state motor vehicles commissioner, portrayed the crackdown as a means of screening terrorists.

A crackdown in Gaineeeeesville means driving without a license can lead to deportation, so many use a 'taxista' -- or simply move away.