Sentence examples for crackdowns from from inspiring English sources

In the short run this will intensify the already considerable unrest among the unemployed in the countryside and prompt crackdowns from Beijing.

Using the hashtags #Syria, #Daraa and #Mar15, they've managed to bring attention to a movement – and ensuing crackdowns from security forces – that hasn't seen much global media attention.

E-mail may have facilitated protest by the Falun Gong, but protest does not equal democratization, especially when answered by crackdowns from a powerful government.

He has defended Latino day laborers who were targets of misguided local crackdowns, from illegal police stings to unconstitutional anti-solicitation ordinances.

In addition to changing its policies in Russia, Microsoft announced a major plan to help the nonprofit sector and to prevent political crackdowns from being carried out by the authorities under the guise of software piracy inquiries.

Medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, but its dispensaries and their proprietors have periodically faced crackdowns from federal authorities who do not recognize the state law, which was passed as Proposition 215.

Maybe only a crackdown from the Clintons, although, as Andrew Sullivan notes, there is a bit of revisionism and shamelessness in the Clintonian outrage.

Another New Zealand detainee told Radio NZ he feared a crackdown from guards in the coming days, including the use of "rubber bullets and tear gas".

(CIJA investigators later retrieved this order, among many others related to the crackdown, from the military-intelligence headquarters in Deir Ezzor, after it was abandoned).

Crackdown From Rangoon to Mandalay and down the Irrawaddy river to the small town of Pakokku, demonstrators and politicians were rounded up in the crackdown against the greatest challenge to the 400,000-strong army's hegemony in a generation.

Between 2008 and 2010 Ciudad Juarez, situated just across the US border from El Paso, Texas, was ranked the world's deadliest city when a drug war between vicious rival cartels was exacerbated by a crackdown from the Mexican authorities.