Sentence examples for state crackdown from inspiring English sources

Back to the top The movement was largely silenced in the state crackdown of 2009.

I also spent some time with reproductions of proletarian newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, before the state crackdown on left-wing thought made such publications impossible.

A decade ago, the Chinese American Medical Society helped spur a short-lived state crackdown on a Chinatown subculture of fake doctors.

In one case cited, the commission did an exhaustive investigation into a state crackdown on antiglobalization protesters in Guadalajara in May 2004.

The murderhas sparked calls for a state crackdown on underworld gangsters similar to measures taken when journalist Veronica Guerin was shot dead in 1996.

Sectarian attacks peaked in August 2013 in the wake of state crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood after the removal of the Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi.

As painkiller-related deaths began to fall in the early 2010s following federal and state crackdowns on prescription opioids, heroin-related deaths began to rise.

The bad news there, however, is that state crackdowns on unauthorised migrants, along with a border that is getting harder to cross, are making it tougher for migrant workers to flow to where they are needed.

The report said there was little evidence that state crackdowns on the shadow economy had an impact, and suggested instead that governments should legalise certain informal activities, perhaps through the use of amnesties.

(Her parents eventually moved back to Bangladesh where her father, in 1991, started the Daily Star_,_ a prominent English-language newspaper that has become a target of state crackdowns on the independent press).

But so far, as Turkey has moved deeper into talks with the EU, there seems to be no letting up on state crackdowns on dissidents and critics.