What that could suggest — and, again, it is a theory — is that rumors of a Winnie crackdown triggered a surge in interest and then an actual crackdown, said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous co-founder of GreatFire.org, a website that monitors China's Internet filtering and maintains an app to help Internet users get past the restrictions.
The surge in violence followed a deadly crackdown by the Shiite-led government on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq in April.
The surge in violence follows a Pakistani crackdown on militants linked to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, including the arrest of the Taliban's No. 2 commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
With the rise of terrorism, we see a surge in the use of the noun crackdown as well as its verb form, to crack down on.
The main reason for the surge in trafficking, officials say, is a crackdown by Myanmar's military government on armed ethnic groups along the borders with Thailand, Laos and China.
The planned immigration crackdown follows a surge in support for UKIP, which campaigns for a reduction in net migration, but ministers insist the measures had been decided before last week's local election results.
The surge in shootings is "directly related" to a crackdown on gangs in Mexico and the United States, says Pat Fogarty, a senior officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Each crackdown simply prompts a surge in new orders for satellite dishes.Channels based in Tehrangeles, as the Iranian community in California jokingly calls itself, have long broadcast a treacly diet of Farsi music videos and variety shows.
Mr. Bush said a crackdown could lead to a surge in electricity prices, compounding what he referred to for the first time as an "energy crisis".
Detective Chief Inspector Jon Chapman, who led a three-month operation against suburban farms in Hertfordshire, said police forces in southern counties have noticed a surge in suburban farms run by Vietnamese gangs since a crackdown by police in London.
