Sentence examples for it began cracking from inspiring English sources
But as the food crisis eased a couple of years ago, North Korea began reinstating the ration system as its most powerful tool of control over its population, and it began cracking down on the mushrooming unofficial markets, which it saw as a dangerous breeding ground for capitalism and outside influence.
But it began cracking down on the practice in 2015, acknowledging its struggles to control it.
Because the clay in Venice was not fired, it began cracking during the show, he explained.
El Salvador's frequent experiments with repressive policing have not reduced crime, and Mexico's murder rate has almost doubled since it began cracking down on drug gangs.
Turkey's air raids against the Kurdish rebels, which came at the same time as it began cracking down on Isis, are reigniting a 30-year conflict with the insurgents and leave a two-year-old, fragile peace process in pieces.
James Harrison and the Pittsburgh Steelers have thought that the N.F.L. has unfairly singled him out for penalties and fines since it began cracking down on hits to the head in the middle of last season.
Thor gave it up when Evony began cracking down on bots: "I actively botted to support the insanely huge army sizes necessary to compete.
Kazakhstan began cracking down on dissent the same year that its first terrorist attacks occurred -- 2011.
Last year, the Third Public Order Brigade began cracking down hard.
Earlier this year, they began cracking down on imports.
We began writing codes and we began cracking them, too.
