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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1. The government is determined to crack down on terrorism.
2. The police decided to crack down on drug addicts.
3. The council has announced its intention to crack down on parking offences.
4. He said the security forces would continue to crack down hard on the protestors.
5. Officers will crack down on lunatic motorists who speed or drive too close to the car in front.
6. The police are really beginning to crack down on drivers who park their cars just where they like.
7. The House voted today to crack down on banks that launder drug money.
8. Police have launched a campaign to crack down on drug dealers.
9. We have to crack down on software pirates.
10. To crack down on tax loopholes.
11. The authorities are determined to crack down on terrorism.
12. He has tried to crack down on corruption.
13. The government has promised to crack down on crime.
14. The government's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform.
15. Quinn pleaded that Daley crack down harder, that the police open up.
16. The Athletics Federation plans to crack down on drug and steroid abuse by athletes.
17. The authorities have been reluctant to crack down on pachinko for other reasons as well.
18. City authorities were quick to crack down on the rioters.
19. It is too late to crack down on the oligarchs or seize their ill-gotten gains.
20. Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy,[Sentencedict.com ] who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!
21. President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity.
22. In the developed world we need to crack down hard on workplaces that break health and safety regulations.
23. Several European governments have pledged to work together to crack down on child pornography and sex tourism.
24. Putin's program would revise the antiquated pension system, rewrite the labor code and crack down on money-laundering.
25. The story shows Lautro to be an unsentimental regulator with the power and will to crack down hard.
26. But a year ago, Putin came to power vowing to crack down on wayward regions.
27. Oxford police recently reported their concern to the city's magistrates and their determination to crack down.
28. The immediate trigger for the protest is a parliamentary bill designed to crack down on illegal immigration.
29. Still, the response by state officials to the Mixteco unrest has been to launch negotiations rather than to crack down.
30. But conservative lobbying and fears of a voter backlash have prompted the government to crack down.
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