crackdown betydelse and definition

Exempel på crackdown

• The police are having a crackdown on cyclists without lights.

• The company is having a crackdown on personal internet use.

• The school has started a crackdown on pupils who turn up late.

• But they remained too few and too scattered to undermine the left or to prevent the government's devastating crackdown on the union in 1985-86.

• Moreover, a government crackdown on these annuities makes sense on progressivity grounds.

• Under a one-party system, crackdown on underworld criminal groups may indiscriminately impinge upon the space for legitimate organized social or political activities.

• Their wildcat actions undermined the leadership's ability to keep its bargain with the government and risked a repeat of the 1978 crackdown.

• Charging instead that workers' grievances were based on communist agitation, they argued for a crackdown on radicalism and labor unrest.