Sentence examples for widening crackdown from inspiring English sources

The arrests are part of a widening crackdown on U.A.E.

Most were preoccupied by the protests backing Mr. Morsi and the widening crackdown against them.

The I.R.S. created the latest program amid a widening crackdown by federal authorities on offshore accounts sold to wealthy Americans by Swiss and Swiss-style banks.

A12 Iran Student Protests Students at two Tehran universities held peaceful demonstrations to denounce the widening crackdown on the nation's independent press.

That tradition is being tested as prosecutors seek to learn the identities of other UBS clients in a widening crackdown on offshore tax and banking abuses.

The settlement is the latest example of a widening crackdown by the federal government on violators of bribery laws and represents one of the most wide-ranging cases brought so far against a foreign corporation.

At least 69 suspects accused of plotting an Islamist coup in the United Arab Emirates received prison sentences of up to 15 years on Tuesday, in a mass trial that underscored the widening crackdowns on dissent across the entire Gulf Arab region.

But even as he spoke the Egyptian military appeared to be widening its crackdown.

The attack provided further evidence that Egypt's security establishment was reasserting its dominance after President Mohamed Morsi's ouster three weeks ago, and widening its crackdown on his Islamist allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.

Turkish authorities have seized control of the Cihan news agency, according to a statement from Cihan, widening the crackdown against supporters of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, an influential foe of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

In a widening government crackdown on independent voices in Zimbabwe, the police in that country arrested two political opposition leaders this week on charges of inciting violence during speeches at weekend rallies.