Sentence examples for stepped up use from inspiring English sources

But anti-bribery enforcement has been transformed since the early 2000s, when NGOs started to raise a stink and America stepped up use of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).This law was passed in 1977, but in its first quarter-century it was largely ignored by prosecutors.

Afghanistan President Karzai made a dramatic public appeal to the US political elite when he told the Washington Post last week that the stepped up use of nighttime military raids by NATO forces in Afghanistan is unacceptable to the Afghan people and must stop.

To make up for the lost energy, Tokyo Electric has stepped up use of coal and oil.

But even as such trials were largely abandoned, evidence gathering was stepped up, using increasingly exotic means.

The company is stepping up use of independent distributors.

Schools and colleges could soon be stepping up use of "open source" software (software downloadable for free from the internet), thanks to the awarding of the first tender by Becta for office suite software which offers an alternative to existing products.

Meanwhile, broker-dealers will look to regional exchanges still in private hands or step up use of independent trading systems.

That he would step up use of the power within the Met.

He's stepped up the use of drone attacks on Qaeda leaders, very effectively, although in ways that have sparked a serious legal debate.

(The show has not, however, stepped up — to use another of its recurring exhortatory phrases — when it comes to Asian and Latino women. Not that United Nations-style casting guarantees loftiness or anything.

Standing aside, I watched as a man from Brussels stepped up and used his Belgian Visa card.