Sentence examples for severe crackdown from inspiring English sources

It has also prompted a severe crackdown.

He went on to imply that a severe crackdown on the Brotherhood was imminent.

· A 2002 alleged assassination attempt against Niyazov sparked a severe crackdown, leading to dozens of arrests.

Journalists say that a severe crackdown on media in recent years has encouraged self-censorship among news outlets.

The Chinese government has opened what those working with refugees say is the most severe crackdown on North Korean refugees ever undertaken here.

The Berbers who poured into the city on Thursday were protesting a severe crackdown on earlier demonstrations that began in their home region two months ago.

His violence has repulsed many believers and prompted severe crackdowns in Arab states that already have limited political freedoms.

Xi – a leader so powerful one academic calls him "the chairman of everything" – has instead presided over one of the most severe crackdowns on opponents of the Communist party in decades.

Just before there were severe crackdowns on South Korean products, but since last year the authorities haven't been giving people trouble about them in the market, probably because Party officials take pleasure in them too".

It was released in 2009 – the year that the Tibetan self-immolations started in earnest, largely as a result of severe crackdowns on religious freedom and suffocating surveillance by government authorities on the monasteries.

To start with, Chinese intellectuals, dissidents and civil society advocates are experiencing the most severe government crackdown in years, with dozens of people — among them leaders of several underground Christian churches and the artist and critic Ai Weiwei — having been locked up without charge over the past two months.