Crackdown

crackdown (noun) - strong official action to punish lawbreakers

a police crackdown

an crackdown on pirated goods
a crackdown on intellectual property violators

a short-lived crackdown
a sudden crackdown
the crackdown caught the culprits by surprise

the crackdown made it look like they were actually doing something about the problem when actually they weren't

a crackdown on timber smuggling

a company crackdown on private phone calls from the office

launch a crackdown
call for a crackdown
demand a crackdown
mount a crackdown

a crackdown on crime
a crackdown on criminals
a crackdown on illegal immigrants
a cyber crackdown

 the 2007 crackdown on the monks in Burma

a crackdown on protesters
140 people were killed in the crackdown that followed the protests
China's crackdown on pro-independence protests in Tibet
the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989
strongly denounced the regime's crackdown
the growing crackdown on environmental activism in China

police plan a crackdown

a bloody crackdown
a serious crackdown
a violent crackdown

human rights groups condemned the crackdown

Posted by Jon Fernquest at 06:23 AM