Sentence examples for mounting crackdown from inspiring English sources

The journalists said they were resisting a mounting crackdown on freedom of expression ahead of elections expected next year.

But rather than condemning the mounting crackdown, Theresa May offered only a weak "call for the observance of Turkey's constitutional order", and stressed "the importance of the rule of law".

In New York it is currently in the midst of a prolonged legal dispute with the attorney general, while authorities in San Francisco, New Orleans, Malibu and other US cities are also mounting crackdowns.

The government has mounted crackdowns on corruption in the past but still has one of the world's worst problems with graft, according to Transparency International, a nonprofit group that reports annually on bribe-taking by public officials.

Meanwhile, the army have made negotiations almost impossible by mounting a crackdown on senior Muslim Brothers and killed dozens of their followers in two brutal massacres.

Najib has denied taking any public funds for personal use, and his government has lashed out at criticism by mounting a crackdown on dissent that has seen two newspapers suspended and a British-based whistleblowing website blocked.

But he likewise criticised the mounting police crackdown in Xinjiang, complaining that punitive policies were radicalising young Uighurs and convincing them that the battle was not between China and terrorists, but between China and Islam.

Faced with a proliferation of stolen phone trafficking, Colombian police have been mounting a crackdown.

Erik Eckholm (NYT) MYANMAR: DISSIDENT UNDER WRAPS -- The opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was kept confined to her home in the capital, Yangon, as the military government mounted a crackdown against its opponents.

In an appearance at Exeter University on Thursday, Cameron was not asked directly about his tax affairs nor why he lobbied the EU not to mount a crackdown on offshore trusts in 2013.

The violence in Burundi is the fallout from President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in office, which sparked protests that in turn prompted Nkurunziza to mount a crackdown on all forms of opposition.