How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

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• Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
• Heavy sanctions and crackdowns on trade are prescribed to isolate and denigrate the regimes in Tehran and Beijing.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
• These developments signal that the regulators are not unanimous in their crackdown on the industry.
  — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• The Chinese leader’s crackdown on excessive property-market leverage led to a sharp drop in land sales, depriving cities of one of their biggest revenue sources.
  — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• That party is facing closure following a severe crackdown by the government for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militant groups.
  — Suzan Fraser, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• The protests have largely fizzled amid a violent crackdown by authorities that has included mass arrests, death sentences and the executions of four young protesters.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Panahi was arrested again in 2022 in the wake of Iran’s conservative government crackdown and released earlier this month.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• On May 16, the state announced a crackdown on the scam.
  — Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
• That crackdown helped bring the number of murders down to four in 1993.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The bloody crackdown had a lasting impact on Walz, who saw it as all the more reason to go.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• In the face of a deadly regime crackdown, protests died down in Iran earlier this year.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Talks to revive the deal were shelved in recent months amid the Iranian regime's crackdown on the protests.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The crackdown could raise $50 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years, according to the agencies.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 11 July 2024
• Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing has rolled out in the U.S.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 May 2023
• His campaign had promised a crackdown on crime and corruption that gripped the country in recent years.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
• If anything, the harsh crackdowns on this year’s protests have brought disruption and distrust.
  — Eddie R. Cole / Made By History, TIME, 4 June 2024
• In fact, Walz was not there during the protests, which culminated in Beijing’s crackdown in June of that year.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
• But in the corridors of power in Baghdad and Tehran, politicians were planning the crackdown.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• The crackdown came on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, which led to a months-long siege by the Chinese government.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
• The culture ministry handed down fines, travel bans, and arrests to more than 140 people as part of the crackdown.
  — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• The crackdown doesn't just mean a chastened Binance will have to change its practices going forward.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
• As the Ukraine war has ground on for over a year, Russia has intensified its crackdown on dissent.
  — Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The crackdown on cities isn’t new, but the scope of this year’s proposal has local officials wringing their hands.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
• The states aren't all using exactly the same reasoning for their crackdowns.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024
• The move formed part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on sneaky fees that often cost consumers.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 May 2024
• The crackdown has made people much more cautious about overtly showing their anger at the government, said Ilyash.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Some cities in the county passed their own camping restrictions, in part, out of concern that homeless people would go there to avoid the crackdown in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The crackdown sparked backlash from users in those countries, and prompted some to even cancel their subscriptions.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Apr. 2023

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crack down

2 of 2 verb

• Studios in the past cracked down on fans for using their logos and brands via lawsuits and litigations.
  — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• Lilly has been spending billions to boost supply while taking steps to crack down on altered versions of tirzepatide.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• American Airlines is cracking down on people who cut the boarding line.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
• The vice president used the platform to outline some of her agenda, including a plan to expand child care tax credits and boost housing supply, as well as to crack down on price gouging.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
• The party has become increasingly authoritarian, adopting laws that are similar to those used by Russia to crack down on freedom of speech.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• Vallas wants the police to crack down on crime in the city.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• The new city law is aimed at cracking down on short-term rentals.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Wang called on the Taliban to crack down on terrorism and unite with ethnic groups in the country.
  — Helen Regan and Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 9 Sep. 2021
• And, like Netflix, Costco is cracking down—for the second time just over a year.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2024
• Part of Blumenthal and Blackburn’s concern stems from the fact that, for the past six years, there’s been a law in place to crack down on bots.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2022
• Trump heaped praise on Masters and Lake as the candidates who can stop the Biden agenda and crack down at the border.
  — The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
• At the state Capitol: California may crack down on bad cops in wake of George Floyd’s killing.
  — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• Ohio passed legislation that year to crack down on pill mills.
  — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• His opponent, Paul Vallas, has vowed to crack down on crime.
  — Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2023
• Trim the travel budget, reduce head count and…crack down on remote work?
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• California, New York and Indiana are among states that have passed laws to crack down on the crime.
  — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• Law enforcement struggles to crack down on bomb fishing due to a lack of resources.
  — Jalynn Hilton, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Not all teachers are looking for ways to crack down on ChatGPT.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• Cities take action Some cities also are looking to crack down on these devices.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
• Maduro’s government has cracked down on the protests, with riot police deployed to quell the unrest.
  — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
• The powers that be looked for a quick way to crack down on the widespread awareness building that was stopping business as usual.
  — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, TikTok is cracking down on some users who post frequently about the weight loss drugs.
  — Katie Palmer and Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 20 July 2023
• Anderson raised the spectre of the 2003 Cedar Fire to say that cracking down on encampments could reduce the risk of deadly blazes.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• As concerns about TikTok’s ties to China continue to mount, governments around the globe have been cracking down on the use of the app.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
• But the more fiercely people resisted, the harsher the government cracked down on them.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
• Since Modi came to power in 2014 his government has cracked down on hundreds of NGOs, choking them of funds.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Senate Bill 1 would crack down on promoting students who did not pass.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2024
• Victims’ voices used to command attention when politicians were eager to crack down on crime with three strikes laws and the war on drugs.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• The bill also includes measures aimed at cracking down on bad actors.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• The vote was a surprise to many advocates, who have criticized the board for being reluctant to crack down, and some in the county, who hoped the board would put off a vote.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024