Sentence examples for started crackdowns from inspiring English sources

But just 50 miles east of Los Angeles, a handful of cities have started crackdowns similar to those in Arizona on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

Regulators in the United States in recent years have started crackdowns on insider trading at hedge funds, including actions against SAC Capital Advisors, founded by the billionaire Steven A. Cohen.

That started a crackdown on Internet pedophilia that cast Westchester in a sinister light.

The Internal Revenue Service has also started a crackdown, denying some sellers the right to deduct marijuana-related business expenses.

It started its crackdown on smoking in 2005, at a time when 40 per cent of adults smoked.

The investigation of Sanofi comes as China's drug regulator has started a crackdown on misconduct in the country's pharmaceutical market.

In 2009, Mr. Bo and Mr. Wang started a crackdown on criminal gangs that was also an offensive against private entrepreneurs and Mr. Bo's enemies.

Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has started a crackdown on militant Islamic groups and promised to spell out soon his strategy for curbing extremism.

Thomas Pilkington, the new commander of the 111th Precinct, which covers eastern Queens, said he had started a crackdown against valet parking that violates traffic laws.

Then, in 2008, Bangladesh, where many of the leaders of Northeastern insurgent groups were based, got a new government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which started a crackdown on Indian insurgents on its territory.

So while the city started a crackdown on Wednesday to enforce its "block the box" law, it might want to tackle those double-parkers who act as if they are above -- or beside -- the law.