Sentence examples for decided to crack down from inspiring English sources

In summer 1999, Beijing decided to crack down on the smuggling ring.

The UN has decided to crack down on Mr Hussein's main way of profiting from his oil.

For years, the I.R.S. ignored the activities of these groups; when it finally decided to crack down, it did so in a dangerous way.

The government decided to crack down on the strike in view of economic problems that have forced repeated downward revisions in estimates for growth.

After Williamson County, Tex., probation officers decided to crack down on absconders, they arrested over 1,000 probation violators and collected more than $65,000 in unpaid penalties.

It all started last summer when Italy, struggling as ever with high taxes and huge government deficits, decided to crack down on tax evasion, which ranks, alongside soccer, as the great national obsession.

So why did Mr. Greenspan decide to crack down yesterday?

When a new immediate supervisor, Sgt. Robert E. Lee Mr. Glennn), decides to crack down on Ray's featherbedding and black-marketing, Ray decides to seduce the sergeant's daughter, Robyn (Anna Paquin).

When the workers demonstrate, the country's insecure officials may well decide to crack down, with echoes of Tiananmen Square that would inevitably inflame American opinion.

Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, and should Barack Obama's administration decide to crack down, as it has done in some medical-marijuana states, the work of the task-force would rapidly come undone.

But his concession to Ponting's point of view is the first indication that cricket's world governing body might decide to crack down on the way teams stretch the limits of law.