Synonym: clamp down. Similar words: crackdown, track down, back down, smack down, duck down, lockdown, knock down, knockdown. Meaning: v. repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable).
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31. They also have become a popular target for local legislators trying to crack down on gun violence.
32. Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances.
33. Teachers must crack down on bullying as soon as they become aware of it.
34. He adds that there also is a push to crack down on magazines and newspapers that advertise the devices.
35. The Chief Constable was also asked to launch a major operation in Wirral to crack down on suppliers.
36. He did not crack down his revolutionary left wing.
37. The riot police started to crack down.
38. Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelick decided to crack down on the bums who ride the trains.
39. Many educators say parents should crack down on their teenagers'jobs if grades start to languish.
40. Somaliland's fledgling government has managed to successfully crack down on pirates with a robust arrest policy.
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42. Since ancient times, China is a peace-loving country, if someone dares to invasion, we will resolutely crack down on lenience.
43. After the uprisings in Poland and Hungary in 1956 were ruthlessly suppressed, many speculated that Khrushchev would have to roll back his program of de-Stalinization and crack down further.
44. After the third car accident, the police began to crack down on speeding.
45. But as credit-card issuers and Congress race to crack down on over-borrowing, do we risk barring the door so tightly that teens miss out on opportunities to learn financial responsibility?
46. We should restrictively apply criminal silence right in criminal detection work so as to use criminal detection work to crack down on crime and to...
47. Could the U.S. apply stronger pressure to get China to crack down?
48. The police are always urged to crack down on drug addicts.
49. Commanders say the aim it to crack down on militants and criminals.
50. China's nationwide campaign to crack down on pornographic websites full swing.
51. In the local division and firmly crack down on terrorists.
52. Diplomats say China tends to exaggerate such threats as excuse to crack down on separatist movements.
53. Two U.S. senators said Sunday they will ask federal authorities to crack down on a secretive narcotics market operated on the Internet with anonymous sales and untraceable currency.
54. Liberia's Drug Enforcement Agency says it lacks the financial and logistical support to adequately crack down on illegal drug trafficking.
55. Mullen says "one key aspect" of the U.S. strategy is to improve relations with Pakistan so that officials there will crack down on al-Qaida and other related groups.
56. For instance[http://sentencedict.com], why must we crack down on economic crime?
57. It'seems, such a total solar eclipse, crack down on the people's self - confidence .
58. The police are always being urged to crack down on drug addicts.
59. We should restrictively apply criminal silence right in criminal detection work so as to use criminal detection work to crack down on crime and to embody humanistic spirit.
60. The police ran a sting operation to crack down on illegal guns.
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