Sentence examples for serious crackdown from inspiring English sources

Mr Clinton clearly does not believe he can push Mr Zedillo into a serious crackdown.

Still, few here believe there will be a serious crackdown anytime soon.

At any rate, the police did not begin a serious crackdown on the group until last February.

Omar will also discuss working as a human rights lawyer on serious abuses amidst a serious crackdown and in a climate of rampant impunity.

There have also been demands for the creation of an electoral framework that supports credible party political development and for a serious crackdown on corruption.

But for now, it appears that the government has not mounted a serious crackdown on anonymous users as social media sites continue to grow.

Years after the 9/11 attacks prompted such serious crackdowns on airplane security that you can't take a regular bottle of shampoo on board, the T.S.A. found 1,549 firearms on passengers attempting to go through screening in 2012.

Although there's less violence in Pakistan than there was earlier in the decade the army, which maintains de-facto control of the country, decided to launch a semi-serious crackdown on the militant groups that it has long nurtured Yousafzai remains a controversial figure in the land of her birth.

It, is perhaps one of the most dangerous issues that requires urgent and serious legislative crackdown.

Yasir Arafat's Fatah appeared to reach a truce with Hamas after clashes left a Hamas man dead and many asking if Mr. Arafat was serious about his crackdown.

The extent of regulators' actions against Nomura was crucial, and little short of a business termination order could convince investors that Japanese regulators were serious about a crackdown, he said.