Sentence examples for imposed a clampdown from inspiring English sources

Successive defence secretaries, notably Philip Hammond, now at the Foreign Office, have imposed a clampdown on the top brass, latterly as a result of bickering between the heads of the armed forces in the runup to the strategic defence and security review in 2010, and during the attacks on Libya a year later.

Germans so universally condemned the loss of life after Erfurt and Winnenden that there was nary any protest when lawmakers unceremoniously imposed a draconian clampdown on guns in the wake of the shooting rampages that left 31 victims dead.

As the authorities imposed a pre-Olympic clampdown on everything from Beijing bars to the street behaviour of the inhabitants of the capital, the last few months have seen, if anything, a toughening up of action against dissidents, ethnic minorities and those who are seen as threatening the established order.

The government imposed a curfew in Baghdad.

Judge Chin imposed an additional 16 months.

He also delivered a withering verdict on leaked proposals from Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to impose a 75,000 cap on the number of EU nationals allowed to work in Britain each year and warned that a clampdown on student visas would harm foreign relations.

Amazon has become the first technology company to abandon controversial corporate structures that divert sales and profits away from UK in the face of a clampdown imposed by George Osborne.

True, it imposes a (small) haircut.

O'Neill's challenge: impose a little discipline.

Even before Israel imposed the latest clampdown, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was estimating losses of about $10m a day since the violence erupted on September 28th.

But that would impose an intolerable burden.