Sentence examples for it stepped up from inspiring English sources

Plan Colombia succeeded because, at the same time that it stepped up its antidrug efforts, Colombia aggressively reformed its tax system and greatly improved government accountability.

Each time he took a step towards Iran, it stepped up its nuclear work.

Yemen, long a roost for terrorist groups, has said it stepped up its campaign against Al Qaeda in recent months, carrying out raids against militant hide-outs.

It stepped up its drive to prise from the army the job of curbing terrorism and other roles that are normally police work.

In December, Uzbekistan pulled out of Russia's regional security bloc, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, as it stepped up its requests for Western weapons.

It stepped up its marketing, hiring Mario Testino to shoot advertising campaigns, and populating the ads with aristocrats (Lord Frederick Windsor), models (Kate Moss), and aristocratic models (Stella Tennant).

It stepped up its purge of corrupt politicians, officials and businessmen, more than 150 of whom have been arrested since the beginning of the year.The police arrested and jailed Sheikh Hasina Wajed, prime minister between 1996 and 2001.

The Islamic State in Khorasan, the militant group's Afghan affiliate, established roots there in the mountainous area along Pakistan's border in 2014, and the U.S. military launched raids and airstrikes there in 2017 as it stepped up its campaign against the group.

The government, finally, must stop neglecting worker safety issues, even as it steps up enforcement.

It has stepped up its monitoring and prosecutions for fraud.

Instead of quieting down, it has stepped up its protests.