clamp down

How To Use clamp down In A Sentence

• Recent moratorium on development of big-box gaming resorts in US due to economic downturn evolves into a long-term clamp down. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• But the more votes it receives, the more the possibility of the emergence of an alternative government that will clamp down on corruption and nepotism. Times, Sunday Times
• A tough new regime across West Yorkshire will clamp down this month on non-payers of court penalties and on-the-spot fines, including speeding tickets.
• Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. March « 2009 « Sentence first
• When May took over, she said she would clamp down on special advisers. Times, Sunday Times
• The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
• He even has a pop at the police for failing to clamp down on the hangers-on who follow parades.
• He is similarly unimpressed with measures to clamp down on using trusts for inheritance tax planning purposes. Times, Sunday Times
• But they are still picking the brains of their Scottish counterparts Critics to try to clamp down on it. The Sun
• This next phase would build on existing measures to clamp down on the grey economy and close the loopholes allowing for tax evasion.