Sentence examples for of a clampdown from inspiring English sources

Or, in the case of a clampdown on Twitter or BlackBerry Messenger (whatever that is), all three.

Recent signs of a clampdown include the ongoing trial in Abu Dhabi of five pro-democracy activists accused of undermining public order by seeking free elections.

The chance of a clampdown on drug pricing, as promised by Hillary Clinton, has now disappeared, benefiting global pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline.

In the wake of a clampdown on public debate in Egypt, young people have embraced social entrepreneurship as an alternative path to social change.

Matt Basi, head of trading at CMC Markets in London, said rumours of a clampdown on lending in China had also hit share prices.

The current executive chair of HMRC has been a vocal opponent of a clampdown on tax avoidance and referred to taxation as "legalised extortion".

These facts should help researchers to answer the important question of whether a clampdown on these contracts would do significant harm to the wider economy.

The monomania that had served him in revolution translated, when he sat in the statehouse, into dictatorship and unhappiness for Ghana: a cult of personality, a clampdown on free expression, economic decline, extreme corruption, and finally, in 1966, while Nkrumah was on a state visit to China, a military coup.

This push to close down some of the spammier types of content follows a clampdown on sites with crappy web experiences — for example those caked in advertising — and moves to weed out clickbait in multiple languages.

Foreigners moan about the arrest and murder of opposition leaders, a clampdown on the press, or frittering of oil revenues on palaces and luxury cars.

Last week, the finance ministers of Germany, France and Italy demanded a clampdown on Luxembourg-based tax avoidance in a letter to the EC's commissioner for economic affairs, Pierre Moscovici.