Examples of 'clampdown' in a sentence
Meaning of "clampdown"
clampdown (noun) - a sudden restriction or control on an activity or process by an official authority, often for security reasons
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- A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
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Apparently this clampdown has gone global.
Lawyers and tradesmen caught in tax clampdown.
Communist clampdown and translation work.
Does not look like too much of a clampdown to me.
Authorities step up clampdown ahead of the presidential elections.
Cambodians have suffered a brutal political clampdown.
There was a clampdown on alternative culture.
They will be a full security clampdown.
The government clampdown was violent.
At the same time fears grew of violent clampdown.
There is a total clampdown on any of this getting out to the press.
But a credible excuse to initiate a clampdown.
Antisemitic measures and the clampdown on dissident activities reached a peak.
Venezuela is facing international criticism for a clampdown on protesters.
A clampdown on internal party democracy brought this effort to a dead end.
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So they decided to have a clampdown.
A military clampdown is in effect.
Working for the clampdown.
There is a total clampdown on any conventional means to express their grievances.
The bad news is there is been a security clampdown at the factory.
The clampdown on freedom of expression extended beyond journalists and bloggers.
Iranians honor their dead in the face of government clampdown.
European politicians call for clampdown on tax trade trick.
Clampdown on sign of peace.
In recent years there has been a noticeable clampdown on money laundering.
The aim is to clampdown on the protesters and netizens are fearing the worst.
The authorities have dramatically stepped up their clampdown on freedom of expression.
Zimbabwe must stop clampdown and protect fundamental rights during referendum.
China is trying to clampdown.
Clampdown on news.
Some observers see an expanding clampdown as inevitable given the political climate.
But the incident has led to numerous calls for a clampdown on migrants.
A police clampdown has led to the deaths of several protesters and hundreds of injuries.
Some MPs and media experts have been calling for a clampdown.
The clampdown has prompted widespread complaints of unfairness and future chaos in business.
Putin is toughening his legislative clampdown on blasphemy and offensive acts against religion.
Europe might have anticipated this trap if it was not blindly pursuing a clampdown on migration.
Like a passenger clampdown or a Lifeboat sinking.
Mormons pledge to stay in Russia despite religious clampdown.
Russia signed agreement to clampdown on Internet piracy.
Police clampdown on opposition protests in Russia.
Some are being used for months without any clampdown by the police.
The policies causing the clampdown are currently being challenged in UK courts.
Arrest of Russian theatre director raises fears of clampdown on dissent.
A recent clampdown on Egyptian bloggers encompassed bloggers of different political orientations.
Tunisia launches security clampdown after Sousse attack.
President Buhari himself is no stranger to censorship and media clampdown.
The clampdown against Ahmadis over the past year is alarming.
In Iran the state is likely to continue its clampdown on underground churches.
The clampdown did not sit well with the Internet.
