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repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
The police clamped down on illegal drugs
How To Use crack down In A Sentence
- He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
- And Israel has again started to crack down on Palestinian militants.
- The council has announced its intention to crack down on parking offences.
- The police decided to crack down on drug addicts.
- Several European governments have pledged to work together to crack down on child pornography and sex tourism.
- Hong Kong's regulators are expending ever greater efforts to crack down on ever paltrier financial crimes such as insider trading and market manipulation. Hong Kong's Regulatory Misdirection
- The campaign is aimed to crack down on those who run blockades by sea or hide in containers, and those foreign stowaways who use China as a transfer point.
- SPRINGFIELD - An ongoing effort to crack down on prostitution in the city yielded the arrests of two Springfield men and a man from Wales Thursday afternoon. Reader - MassLive.com
- The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying.
- Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!