Sentence examples for general crackdown from inspiring English sources
That came amid a general crackdown on standards of behaviour and dress at one of Australia's oldest sporting clubs.
The accusation against Mr. Xu was filed during a general crackdown by Chinese authorities on independent activists, and particularly on those activists who receive financing from foreign sources.
At the briefing yesterday, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, heatedly denied that Chinese officials were engaged in a general crackdown on foreign journalists.
The Bank of Italy first became suspicious about Banco Ambrosiano in 1978 during a general crackdown on bank fraud, but immediately ran into a heavy political opposition.
China is a huge and growing market for luxury carmakers, and it is unclear how the new policy on military plates and the general crackdown on wasteful spending by officials will affect the market.
But when Saparmurat Niyazov, the late despot of Turkmenistan, ordered young men to shave their goatees, it was not so much an anti-religious measure as a general crackdown on personal freedom of all kinds.
Legal standards aside, many market experts worry that the attorney general's crackdown may go too far and discourage the kind of enterprising research that has long made markets more efficient, whether undertaken by short-sellers hoping to profit directly on it, Wall Street investment banks that sell research to their clients, or investigative journalists.
Their efforts to preserve that special status in perpetuity, even after the promised election of a new civilian government, set off the outbreak of protests against military rule last month and the generals' subsequent crackdown.
General Musharraf's crackdown has therefore likely deepened the isolation of the military government.
Indian officials say they have seen no signs on the ground yet that General Musharraf's crackdown on militant groups has reduced the level of violence in Kashmir.
In what is widely expected to be the last Queen's speech before the next general election, a crackdown on unscrupulous and unfair lenders was announced today.
