Despite being widely known and hated, game developers and console manufacturers haven't cracked down on the XIM Apex like they've cracked down on other forms of cheating.
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The agency has even cracked down on hiding money offshore.
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Washington has cracked down on the shapes and colors allowed.
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When the city cracked down on that, the graffiti ended.
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The Pakistani government has recently cracked down on blasphemy online.
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The company has, after all, cracked down on questionable content.
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China has cracked down on Microsoft, blocking access to Bing.
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British officials belatedly cracked down on arms trading out of
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Congress could easily have cracked down on lead in schools.
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Or, more simply put, Amazon cracked down on interactive ads.
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Egypt has cracked down on Islamist groups since Mursi's ousting.
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Philip cracked down on Catalans and destroyed part of Barcelona.
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Iran has cracked down on businessmen it accuses of profiteering.
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Another cracked down on human rights abuses in North Korea.
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The kingdom has also cracked down on the news media.
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His regime has cracked down on opposition politicians and prosecutors.
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Becerra has cracked down on nonprofits that break the law.
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Human rights activists say he has cracked down on dissent.
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Regulators have cracked down on those practices in recent years.
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Most recently, the government has cracked down on public gatherings.
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Other countries such as Australia have cracked down on Huawei.
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Shortly after, the platform cracked down on blocking more hashtags.
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And it's high time we cracked down on online gambling.
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He has cracked down on growing street protests with lethal force.
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The government has also cracked down on dissidents in the country.
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The Obama administration hasn't exactly cracked down on this emerging technology.
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Erdogan has cracked down on opponents following last year's failed coup.
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Across the country, it has cracked down on dissidents and activists.
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Since he came into power, Sisi has cracked down on dissent.
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Authorities have also increasingly cracked down on criticism of the junta.
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Abbas has cracked down on dissent, and such protests are rare.
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L in 2014 after the Obama administration cracked down on inversions.
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He cracked down on the types of information that Trump read.
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It cracked down on gang members and reduced the murder rate.
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When authorities cracked down on pill mills, users switched to heroin.
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It has cracked down on pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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The government has cracked down on tech companies in the past.
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Governments have cracked down on these laundering practices in recent years.
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Facebook has cracked down on Huawei adverts for being too political.
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DG: I think free speech is gonna get cracked down on.
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Trump has cracked down on it and he was right to.
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Since then, the police have cracked down on fugitives in Spain.
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Early on, officials cracked down on talk about the illness online.
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Afterwards, Airbnb banned "party houses" and cracked down on unauthorized conduct.
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Instagram has cracked down on this but mainly leveraging manual methods.
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Turkey cracked down on Islamic State fighters passing through Turkey into Syria.
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In Cameroon, Biya scrapped term limits and cracked down on the opposition.
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It's quite possible that Uber's cracked down on this in recent years.
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In elections in 83 and 2011 it cracked down on such attempts.
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Moreover, the government has cracked down on those it sees as troublemakers.
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Despots who fought change all along have cracked down on independent media.
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Myanmar's military cracked down on Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine state following Aug.
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But instead of providing answers, the government cracked down on the protests.
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Last year, Apple cracked down on NSFW content inside iOS Reddit apps.
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He has cracked down on abortion rights and rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
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Nike cracked down on sweatshops and increased the minimum age of workers.
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Security forces have cracked down on protesters, killing hundreds and injuring thousands.
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Last year, Snap also cracked down on some risqué content on Discover.
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Law enforcement officials cracked down on rogue ranchers, loggers and land speculators.
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But the Chinese government has cracked down on some of Tencent's titles.
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In response, the Obama administration cracked down on the for-profit industry.
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The Trump administration has also cracked down on Chinese telecommunications company Huawei.
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In response to the coup, Erdogan cracked down on the military and judiciary.
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Both companies have cracked down on anti-vaccine content in the last year.
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In recent years, the US government has cracked down on unauthorized drone flights.
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They have also cracked down on illegal shopfronts to restore the original facades.
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They also cracked down on illegal hotels using their website in San Francisco.
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The authorities cracked down on Patel, who was charged with sedition in October.
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And at least so far, regulators have cracked down on few of them.
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China also has cracked down on the use of virtual private networks (VPNs).
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"There was no shootout ... the security forces cracked down on villages," he said.
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The SEC has cracked down on those who made moves it deemed wrong.
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Officials in the Bahamas have cracked down on illegal immigration in recent years.
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It's not the first time that Lloyd's has cracked down on daytime drinking.
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Maduro has also violently cracked down on protests and imprisoned major political rivals.
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The talks broke down after Mr. Assad's government cracked down on antigovernment protesters.
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That seemingly alerted the feds who cracked down on Martin and arrested him.
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As governments cracked down on the Netherland Antilles, traffickers went through West Africa.
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Netflix has recently cracked down on the use of VPNs in this manner.
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Other U.S. agencies have cracked down on certain aspects of cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
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After the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Federal Government cracked down on big bank lending.
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Hasina's government has cracked down on domestic radical Islamists by making scores of arrests.
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And the University of Virginia cracked down on liquor and Greek life on campus.
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Authorities have also cracked down on anti-government rally organisers, opposition leaders and activists.
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Authorities have also cracked down on anti-government rally organizers, opposition leaders and activists.
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Similarly, China cracked down on the shadow banking system because it caused systemic risks.
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But the government has frequently cracked down on people who speak out against it.
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When the military cracked down on his political party, he fled Yangon to Thailand.
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Meanwhile, Ms. Hasina's government has cracked down on freedom of expression and the press.
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In response, many universities cracked down on students' insensitivity, and some fired school administrators.
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Thursday's algorithm change is not the first time Facebook has cracked down on clickbait.
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The party has already cracked down on what it terms extravagance, hedonism and bureaucratism.
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Other sites, including Reddit, have cracked down on creepshots, but Tumblr's community is thriving.
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Malaysia, Indonesia, and most recently the Philippines, have brutally cracked down on drug users.
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MBS, the The Journal reported has cracked down on dissidents using sites like Twitter.
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It cracked down on 23andMe in 2013, after the company's first major advertising campaign.
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Many have cracked down on for-profit online certification — or no longer recognize it.
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Police and the FBI have cracked down on white supremacist terrorism in recent months.
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They cracked down on Etsy sellers making a crust with their Baby Yoda homages.
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Bitcoin fell more than $22018,22017 in September when China cracked down on digital currencies.
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The agency has cracked down on e-cigarette businesses in general and Juul in particular.
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The Food and Drug Administration cracked down on the health claims, and public interest waned.
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San Francisco has cracked down on everyone's favorite futuristic pizza delivery mechanism, citing safety concerns.
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South Africa has cracked down on its informal economy, but it is a Pyrrhic victory.
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Since coming to power last year, Salvini has cracked down on migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
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Maduro has cracked down on Guaido allies since putting down an attempted uprising last week.
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It cracked down on what it deemed to be wasteful overseas acquisitions by Chinese firms.
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China has also cracked down on Chinese conglomerates for their aggressive acquisitions of overseas assets.
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Recently the FAA cracked down on several airline companies for failure to comply with regulations.
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Seeing the rise in opioid misuse and deaths, officials have cracked down on prescription painkillers.
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It's noteworthy that earlier this year Congress cracked down on platforms notorious for sex trafficking.
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The SEC has also cracked down on a fundraising technique known as initial coin offerings.
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Cities around the world have cracked down on illegal short-term rentals in various ways.
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Even the southern India state of Karnataka had in March cracked down on the practice.
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Immediately after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, his revolutionary government cracked down on religion.
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The Trump administration rolled back regulations, decimated entire agencies, and cracked down on undocumented immigrants.
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This isn't the first time that Egyptian courts have cracked down on Al Jazeera journalists.
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Saudi Arabia let AMC open the country's first movie theater, but cracked down on journalists.
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Seeing the rise in opioid abuse and deaths, officials have cracked down on prescriptions painkillers.
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The agency has recently cracked down on a number of projects that aren't legally compliant.
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Germany cracked down on its domestic bulk espionage last year, says a newly leaked report.
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The Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim, immediately cracked down on news coverage of the attack.
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News reports erroneously suggested that Disney had cracked down on use of Baby Yoda images.
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In Europe, cities from Amsterdam to Barcelona have cracked down on the home-sharing platform.
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Since then, law enforcement across the country has cracked down on similar live-work spaces.
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Seeing the rise in opioid misuse and deaths, officials have cracked down on prescriptions painkillers.
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This isn't the first time the government has cracked down on withdrawals in the Chinese region.
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Those users began looking for an illicit alternative when authorities cracked down on the legal stuff.
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Recently, police and Games organizers have cracked down on the booming market in counterfeit Olympic goods.
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Now, after YouTube cracked down on the Tide Pod craze, New York lawmakers are stepping in.
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Other regulators have cracked down on deals that aid tax avoidance or risk harming national security.
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This is an area Apple has cracked down on before, as with third-party Reddit apps.
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This month Mexico cracked down on fuel theft by shutting pipelines, which has led to shortages.
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As lead prosecutor, Dunnings cracked down on prostitutes and johns, according to the Lansing State Journal.
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As the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro cracked down on dissent, Democrats and Republicans championed opposition activists.
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He was reelected and, amid continued chaos, has cracked down on his opponents in the media.
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Authorities have cracked down on schools, media and businesses run by Gulen since the July coup.
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In 2009, regulators cracked down on 14 Wall Street firms for front-running customer stock trades.
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Regulators in some countries have also cracked down on bitcoin trading, with China banning bitcoin exchanges.
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Notably, he has challenged Turkey's secular roots, cracked down on political opponents and the free media.
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It also said it cracked down on 1,300 retailers who illegally sold e-cigarettes to minors.
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But it has also cracked down on the Chinese firms if they threaten its political aims.
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Japan's stance is in stark contrast to China, where regulators have cracked down on the market.
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In 1988 the military junta in Burma brutally cracked down on a wave of peaceful uprisings.
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Crowdfunding sites have cracked down on malicious or false campaigns, but people still fall for them.
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The upheaval began on July 23, when the police cracked down on a fight between students.
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And Google, Amazon, and other major corporations cracked down on domestic travel for employees weeks ago.
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They question why France and its neighbors have not cracked down on employers abusing the system.
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Security forces have violently cracked down on protesters with tear gas, sound bombs and rubber bullets.
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Orbán subsequently cracked down on critical media outlets and nongovernmental organizations that he did not control.
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YouTube has cracked down on creepy videos but a few still make it through the cracks.
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Critics also say that since Mnangagwa came to power, he has cracked down on opposition parties.
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The U.S. has blocked China's access to certain technologies and has cracked down on cyber espionage.
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At home, Mr. Xi has increasingly cracked down on critics, human rights lawyers and nonprofit organizations.
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But he purged dissenters and cracked down on civil rights and the media, thereby consolidating power.
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The number of these applications soared as the Obama administration cracked down on for-profit colleges.
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In recent years the government has cracked down on anyone it suspects might have joined al-Shabab.
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In recent years the justices have cracked down on electoral districts drawn by politicians along racial lines.
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YouTube has since cracked down on creators who violate its community guidelines or advertiser-friendly content rules.
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U.S. regulators have cracked down on Juul's use of fruity flavors, which they say encourages teen use.
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Egypt's allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have also cracked down on the group.
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Regulators around the world have increasingly cracked down on child exploitation over the internet and on apps.
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But then in 2013 Egypt's military retook control of the government and cracked down on Islamist movements.
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Since then, security has been boosted and authorities have cracked down on militants, dismantling dozens of cells.
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States have since cracked down on prescription opioid abuse, creating drug-monitoring programmes and arresting unscrupulous doctors.
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The civil war began in 2011, after Assad cracked down on peaceful protesters calling for democratic elections.
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In recent years, the justices have cracked down on districts that are drawn using predominantly racial lines.
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The Russian authorities have also cracked down on street protests that broke out in March against corruption.
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NEARLY TWO months after staging a coup, military leaders have brutally cracked down on protesters in Sudan.
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Sixteen years ago, China cracked down on gangs that were illegally mining sand from the Yangtze River.
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Six people died when the military cracked down on opposition protests in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.
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In response to increasing social unrest the government has cracked down on public protest and political opposition.
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He also called for a boycott of the NFL until the league cracked down on the protests.
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Apple has cracked down on iPhone jailbreaks in recent years and has made them all but obsolete.
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Two years ago, Twitter and Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, banning the practice on both platforms.
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The digital currency plunged by more than $2,000 in September as China cracked down on digital currencies.
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It picked up pace after the financial crisis as countries cracked down on tax avoidance by companies.
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Mr. Sloan was pushed out as regulators cracked down on the bank after a series of scandals.
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In the last few years, other countries in Europe have cracked down on such teen booze binges.
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The United States has cracked down on ZTE and Huawei, two Chinese telecommunications giants, for illicit activities.
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The day after her win, police cracked down on key leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests.
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The day after her win, police cracked down on key leaders of the 503 pro-democracy protests.
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The military junta that took power in a 2014 coup has especially cracked down on internet commentary.
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Regulators have cracked down on fraud in initial coin offerings and repeatedly highlighted risks to retail investors.
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After Lam's disappearance, he said, the mainland had cracked down on banned books with its full might.
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Following those conflicts, Mr. Kadyrov, with the backing of the Russian government, has cracked down on dissent.
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Abraha cracked down on shoplifting; he also lowered prices and began holding cookouts in the parking lot.
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Following a number of deaths tied to vaping, several US regulators have cracked down on e-cigarettes.
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It isn't the first time China has cracked down on elements of the Muslim faith in Xinjiang.
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In a bid to improve road safety, the government recently cracked down on the overloading of trucks.
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The number of Borrower Defense applications soared as the Obama administration cracked down on for-profit colleges.
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Iran and Russia have similarly cracked down on Facebook—citing concerns about cultural dilution and political organizing.
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He has demonized, targeted, and brutally cracked down on electorates that are not likely to vote for him.
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TikTok appealed the decision, saying it had cracked down on inappropriate content, and the court reversed its ruling.
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Federal health officials have cracked down on Juul's use of fruity flavors, which they say encourages teen use.
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He's also made moves to stem the flow and force of regulations and cracked down on undocumented immigrants.
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He was charged in February 2016 as the federal government cracked down on abuses by payday lending companies.
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Lamar Smith in the House would have cracked down on illegal immigration while significantly cutting legal immigration rates.
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Hundreds of demonstrators were killed and thousands of others injured when security forces cracked down on the protest.
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El-Sissi's government has cracked down on the group, which it views as a source of political opposition.
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In 2016, the Everything Store cracked down on fake reviews suing at least three sellers for buying them.
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After the 1959 revolution, Cuba cracked down on cockfighting as part of a ban on gambling, recalls Ferrel.
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In the last few years, authorities have cracked down on the illegal wildlife trade, especially in Chatuchak Market.
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Costa Rica cracked down on people-smugglers in November; Nicaragua repelled border-crossers with truncheons and tear gas.
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China's central bank has cracked down on its domestic bitcoin market and has warned against risks and volatility.
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I played the officer who cracked down on marijuana because he was smuggling cocaine back into the USA.
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Several states have cracked down on liquor in recent years in a bid to curb alcohol-fueled violence.
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In New York, the city has cracked down on e-bikes for delivery couriers for services like UberEats.
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Chinese regulators have cracked down on the cryptocurrency in contrast to Japan, which has been introducing supporting regulation.
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He also cracked down on the nucleus of an independent press, imprisoning or harassing Cuban reporters and editors.
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However, the government has not taken any action against him, nor has it cracked down on independent media.
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U.S. authorities have cracked down on convicted criminals living illegally in the United States in the past year.
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The state recently cracked down on the NRA's "Carry Guard" program that provides insurance in self-defense shootings.
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A tear gas canister from Cairo represented BP's investments in Egypt, whose government has cracked down on dissent.
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The school board would have cracked down on the class disruptions caused by the constant singing on Glee.
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Similarly, the Chinese government cloud cracked down on peer-to-peer lending, forcing lenders to invest in bitcoins.
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In recent years, Maduro has cracked down on critics of his government amid economic turmoil and rising violence.
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The government cracked down on faulty loan products, those with low teaser rates, negative amortization and no documentation.
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The arrest of Ms. Meng isn't the first time the United States has cracked down on Chinese companies.
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It crafted new rules designed to curb protectionism and cracked down on countries that failed to enforce them.
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The nation at that time also cracked down on easy civilian access to machine guns and hand grenades.
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The company also said it cracked down on e-commerce vendors that had "misleading" ads during the holidays.
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It has cracked down on nongovernment organizations like rights groups and charities as well as churches and mosques.
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It also smacks of collusion since u did it on day when Vlad cracked down on US networks.
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Trump has also cracked down on illegal immigration and said he wants to limit workers coming from abroad.
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As security forces cracked down on protesters, some could be seen dragging apparently unconscious protesters on the tarmac.
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Under Chair Mao, the government cracked down on any kind of nontraditional family structure, including same-sex relationships.
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As governments cracked down on cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia in the 1990s, cartels shifted to Colombia.
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When security forces cracked down on the party in the 1990s, Hussain sought asylum in the United Kingdom.
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Eventually, hardliners in the Chinese government cracked down on the protesters, declaring martial law and calling in the military.
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Every time the Obama administration has cracked down on immigration enforcement and infuriated advocates, there's been a political reason.
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As mayor of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, Barletta pushed for legislation that cracked down on undocumented immigrants and made national headlines.
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But regulators in Europe have cracked down on Facebook for rolling it out without users' explicit opt-in consent.
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Thailand's junta has cracked down on critics of the monarchy since it took power in a May 2014 coup.
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The government has cracked down on informal sources of financing from which much VC funding has flowed, for example.
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As governments and regulators cracked down on painkillers, however, many people addicted to the drugs didn't just stop using.
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China's media regulator has cracked down on online video spoofs and parodies, according to state-run media outlet Xinhua.
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Life appeared normal in the capital, where authorities have cracked down on Islamists and other activists since Mursi's overthrow.
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TechCrunch called on Facebook to ban these shenanigans back in January, and it cracked down on them in May.
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Regulators have cracked down on Wells Fargo since widespread issues with sales practices have been uncovered across multiple divisions.
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Since the April uprising, Maduro's government has cracked down on Guaido's allies without significant retaliation from the international community.
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State regulators cracked down on the ride-hailing company's autonomous vehicle program that was knowingly operating without a permit.
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China's scrap imports have tumbled this year as the country has ratcheted up bans and cracked down on smugglers.
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The number of students applying for debt relief soared as the Obama administration cracked down on for-profit colleges.
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But he also cracked down on dissent, jailed his opponents, seized private businesses and homes, and monopolized the media.
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Last year India cracked down on protesters in Kashmir, shooting pellet guns at them and shutting off cellphone service.
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But the commission and federal and state prosecutors have cracked down on that abuse, which has helped reduce spending.
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Denver's Department of Environmental Health Plans cracked down on shops selling the plant in the wake of the ban.
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The SEC has cracked down on the process with subpoenas and charges against some celebrity-backed projects this year.
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The increasingly authoritarian government of Hungary, where Mr. Soros was born, has cracked down on a university he founded.
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Pakistan has never seriously cracked down on militant groups that attack India and the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.
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When the government cracked down on legal painkillers, New Hampshire residents were primed to seek out illegal street drugs.
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The once-unthinkable decision comes in a country that has just recently cracked down on its heavy-smoking ways.
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The government of President Nicolas Maduro has cracked down on the opposition and centralized power, further exacerbating the problem.
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Face masks are being sold for hundreds of dollars and New York City has cracked down on predatory pricing.
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Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Communist leader, cracked down on the country's budding Solidarity trade union movement and declared martial law.
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New York's Eric Schneiderman was one of several state attorneys general who cracked down on the industry in 2015.
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They've also cracked down on mortgage companies that lie to homeowners in order to foreclose on them more quickly.
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In the late 1990s, President Carlos Menem's government similarly cracked down on immigrants by associating them with street crime.
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Last year, Iran cracked down on protests over poor living standards and corruption in over 80 cities and towns.
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But the officials maintained that past administrations had also cracked down on illegal immigration, similarly resulting in family separations.
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Rights groups say authorities have also cracked down on media ahead of the vote in a bid to silence criticism.
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In the past, companies have spontaneously cracked down on content related to suicide, pro-anorexia, payday lending, and bitcoin scams.
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Screenshot: YouTubePatreon, the service of choice for independent artists and creators, has once again cracked down on adult content makers.
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Saudi Arabia this week cracked down on Twitter users, including a radical Sunni cleric who published insulting comments about Shi'ites.
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Beijing cracked down on that financing early last year as part of an attempt to rein in ballooning untracked debt.
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Twitter has cracked down on other violations of its terms of service, including fake accounts by people inflating their following.
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Throughout his presidency, he denied accusations that his government had incarcerated political opponents and unjustly cracked down on the press.
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Law enforcement and social media companies alike have recently cracked down on vendors and the online hubs where customers gather.
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China has cracked down on its population of Muslim Uyghurs, who are concentrated in the country's far western Xinjiang region.
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The Chinese government has cracked down on the fledgling crypto industry since bitcoin became a household name two years ago.
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Turkey has cracked down on home-grown Kurdish militants and has carried out air strikes on Kurdish forces in Syria.
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Deaths have been politicized as his critics say he has not cracked down on the nomads, which he has denied.
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They slammed his rushed executive order that initially cracked down on immigration to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries.
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Officials in Ohio, Wisconsin and New York have cracked down on investment firms that peddle rundown homes in such deals.
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Since then, security has been boosted at strategic sites while authorities have cracked down on militants, dismantling dozens of cells.
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A few articles came out last year and [Facebook] cracked down on it for a few days but nothing's changed.
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To its credit, the government of Narendra Modi, in office since 2014, has cracked down on this kind of corruption.
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The SEC has insisted that such ICOs qualify as securities and have cracked down on unregistered, fraudulent and misleading offerings.
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Farms use antibiotics to make animals grow faster, but some countries, particularly in Europe, have cracked down on such use.
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He has cracked down on black marketeers similar to the ones who first pressured Vietnam to open up to capitalism.
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Washington has also cracked down on more Iranian networks, making it riskier to get involved with Iran, according to bankers.
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But recently, Beijing has cracked down on intellectual property rights violations including corporate espionage and counterfeiting of well-known brands.
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Erdogan has cracked down on journalists and Gulen supporters who speak out against his regime, leading to hundreds of arrests.
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The police have cracked down on child marriage in Hyderabad and nearby areas but officials say most are performed secretly.
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Turkish authorities have cracked down on public expressions of dissent about the ground offensive against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
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Over the years, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have cracked down on Facebook and Google for privacy violations.
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As a federal prosecutor, he cracked down on drug dealers but also offered empathy about the tragedy of opioid addiction.
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At the time, Castro's government attempted to maintain order by force, and police cracked down on vagrants and social outliers.
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Amazon has also cracked down on listings on its marketplace that claim to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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"The regime violently cracked down on the protests," a 23-year-old student at the University of Qom told me.
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The case highlights one of the ways in which New York has increasingly cracked down on the retail animal trade.
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Texas officials have cracked down on the practice in recent years, flagging nearly 85033 suspicious birth certificates in 2019 alone.
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There are concerns about how fair the vote will be after the government cracked down on recently planned public demonstrations.
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There have been concerns about how fair the vote can be after the government cracked down on recently planned demonstrations.
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The government later cracked down on the TLP, detaining more than 3,000 activists and pressing terrorism charges against its leaders.
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France has since cracked down on people suspected of going to war zones like Syria to train as jihadist combatants.
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Congressional investigators have since cracked down on Facebook and other social media sites over their role in the 2016 election.
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" Mr. Vucic boasts that the fact that the government hasn't cracked down on the protests "is a sign of democracy.
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At the same time, the Saudis also cracked down on extremists who would not get in line, including bin Laden.
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Companies have filed misleading invoices to keep more profits outside the country, although Chinese authorities have cracked down on the practice.
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He has cracked down on the military and given a bonus to police amid rising violence and rumors of a coup.
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In September last year, China cracked down on cryptocurrency trading, citing what officials saw as broader risks to the country's economy.
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Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service have cracked down on alleged fraud and racketeering in the industry.
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Jammeh soon cracked down on those who disagreed with his increasingly repressive regime, enforcing his rule with a feared private army.
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Mr. Pitcavage argued that if the government had cracked down on the Bundys, as it did at conflicts in Waco, Tex.
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Facebook has cracked down on anti-vaccination misinformation, banned white nationalism and hired fact-checkers that de-prioritize posts containing misinformation.
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In the 20th century, America cracked down on migration, which fell sharply until a liberalisation of the rules in the 1960s.
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As doctors and law enforcement cracked down on overprescribing of highly addictive painkillers, some patients switched to street drugs like heroin.
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But since the European Union cracked down on migration a year later, his daily clientele has dropped to one or two.
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It has repeatedly cracked down on unauthorized religious activity, with authorities in Beijing shutting down a large Protestant church on Monday.
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Recently, schools cracked down on non-politically correct outfits, from creepy clowns to Caitlyn Jenner, and just about everything in between.
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Before the football World Cup in 2014, the state government cracked down on revenge killings by cops and tried community policing.
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A second problem came in the 2000s as regulators cracked down on the way that companies released news to the market.
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The US Food and Drug Administration had recently cracked down on Walgreens and other retailers for selling tobacco products to minors.
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The government has since cracked down on activists, including last week banning one from running in a by-election in March.
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As governor of Benguela province from 1987 to 1990, he cracked down on corruption, even jailing members of his own party.
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Doctors and university lecturers say if the government cracked down on corruption, there would be more money to pay public servants.
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While establishing the national state, he cracked-down on minorities and opposition, and limited the freedom of speech and the press.
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Still, police have cracked down on any perceived threat, arresting citizens and raiding private residences and cultural centers in central Cairo.
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The problems in this small Central American country grabbed international attention as U.S. President Donald Trump cracked down on illegal immigration.
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Since taking over, Mahathir has pushed to review major infrastructure projects launched by the past administration and cracked down on corruption.
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In late 2016, Twitter cracked down on Trump-supporting bots and suspended influential fringe accounts, some with more than 10,000 followers.
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Rights groups say authorities have cracked down on press freedom in the run-up to the March 26-28 presidential election.
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The letter was released just hours before the FCC's February meeting — the first since Pai cracked down on the Lifeline program.
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Twitter especially has faced criticism for ISIS's use of the platform but has significantly cracked down on the terrorist group's presence.
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Protesters targeted pro-Iranian militias in Basra in July 2018, but the militias have cracked down on dissent in recent months.
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The government has cracked down on suspected Gulen followers, detaining more than 40,000 people and formally arresting about half of them.
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Bitcoin hit $5,013 in early September but dropped to $2,951 in about two weeks as China cracked down on digital currencies.
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China's politics became more oppressive, as President Xi Jinping cracked down on dissent and nurtured a Maoist-style cult of personality.
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Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on other encrypted phone companies allegedly catering to organised crime over the past few years.
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In recent months, authorities have cracked down on firms making substandard products and gaming the subsidy schemes through phantom car sales.
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The Iranian government has also reportedly cracked down on social media use in the country in order to mollify the demonstrations.
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He knows finding refuge in the United States will be hard because the Trump administration has cracked down on asylum seekers.
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Public health agencies have cracked down on e-cigarette companies and distributors in an effort to curb access to the products.
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During his first term, Mr. Modi simplified a byzantine tax system, cracked down on corruption and overhauled India's corporate bankruptcy system.
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But while Mr. Hou has taken a harsher tone after the oil spill, he has not exactly cracked down on Bintan.
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But a solution to the underlying conflict — which began after Mr. Assad's forces cracked down on political protests — has remained elusive.
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In 270, Hubei Province, where Wuhan is, created some 2652 wildlife conservation zones and cracked down on unlicensed hunting and trading.
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Pakistani officials say they have cracked down on the militant networks that once operated with near freedom on the country's soil.
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For example, Apple cracked down on apps that help manage digital wellness citing the apps could glean too much user data.
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Google recently cracked down on some of those discussions and limited how much employees can peer into the work of others.
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Larger social media companies like Twitter have cracked down on the group's accounts since it first rose to prominence in 2014.
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The administration cracked down on band after its skit four years ago sharply criticized the school's handling of sexual assault claims.
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Some apps were even using secret screen recordings until Apple figured it out and cracked down on that earlier this year.
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The president also used the MS-13 gang, which his administration has cracked down on, to argue for stronger border security.
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Since taking power in a coup in 2013, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has cracked down on dissent and free speech.
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"The upper-crust community is obviously not cracked down on," a 24-year-old who works in the music industry said.
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The new tax law cracked down on parents who shelter investment income from taxes by putting it into their children's names.
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Since Mr. Xi came to power in 2013, his administration has imprisoned human rights lawyers and cracked down on civil society.
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Over the last three years, the Kenyan government has cracked down on poaching, beefing up the KWS and enacting stricter laws.
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The government has cracked down on smaller operators, often known as teapots, which often use outdated equipment to make lower grade fuels.
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One nullifies a late Obama-era Department of the Interior rule that would have cracked down on pollution coming from coal mines.
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There were rumblings, Tobin says, up on Norwich Road—not far from the old hubs—but they were cracked down on swiftly.
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In late August, it announced it had thwarted phishing emails from state actors and cracked down on nefarious activity coming from Iran.
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But as governments and the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists cracked down on the drugs' imports for executions, even these supplies dwindled.
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Denisa fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the government cracked down on her for speaking out against the ruling party.
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Schumer says the probe isn't going anywhere and that for all his tough talk, Trump hasn't cracked down on China's trade practices.
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Turkey has cracked down on the movement since the abortive coup, jailing thousands and sacking or suspending from their jobs thousands more.
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President Joko Widodo's government has cracked down on trafficking in an effort to contain soaring consumption of crystal meth and other narcotics.
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Sisi cracked down on the Brotherhood and other Islamists after Mursi's removal and the dragnet widened to include opposition activists and journalists.
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And yes, the California DMV immediately cracked down on the company for operating self-driving vehicles in San Francisco without a permit.
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As president, Sisi has cracked down on dissent, with tens of thousands of political prisoners believed to be held in Egypt's jails.
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Ghraibi was shot in the hand and abdomen when Assad cracked down on the protesters and was taken to Turkey for treatment.
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The Obama administration cracked down on for-profit schools, but the Education Department under President Donald Trump has taken a friendlier approach.
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"Several thousand police cracked down on the protests staged by the villagers," Amnesty International researcher Patrick Poon told CNN, citing local sources.
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Syria has been in a civil war since state security forces cracked down on demonstrations calling for Assad&aposs ouster in 2011.
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According to The Moscow Times, Sobyanin has cracked down on street markets and destroyed some 22,000 kiosks since becoming Mayor of Moscow.
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President Ronald Reagan cracked down on public sector unions and appointed more business-friendly representatives to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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President Tayyip Erdogan has cracked down on schools, media and businesses run by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen since the July coup.
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The government has cracked down on underground churches, both Protestant and Catholic, even as it seeks to improve relations with the Vatican.
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Facebook has recently cracked down on the use of data brokers that suck in public and purchased data sets for ad targeting.
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"They have cracked down on this so hard that there isn't really a lot of space left for statutory action," Eoyang said.
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Switzerland itself has cracked down on migrants — many of them African — trying to enter from southern neighbor Italy after crossing the Mediterranean.
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Huaxia grabbed headlines last year when regulators cracked down on high-yield, short-term investment products such as universal life insurance products.
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In the years since the revolution, that optimism has withered, and the authorities have cracked down on creative expression across the region.
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They recently cracked down on Airbnb, with the city council upping oversight on the apartment-sharing company and its competitors like HomeAway.
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His government cracked down on dissent, imprisoned political opponents and shredded the country's economy with a series of ill-planned economic overhauls.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued multiple warnings about ICOs and cracked down on a number of issues for fraudulent practices.
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The Republican politicians' appointments to the cannabis company come as the current Republican administration has cracked down on state-level marijuana regulations.
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In May 2013, the State Department cracked down on Wilson's Defense Distributed movement, demanding that gun blueprints be pulled off the internet.
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This happened in the 1980s and '90s as federal officials cracked down on trafficking from the Caribbean; trafficking simply moved to Mexico.
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In response to this direct attack on the monolithic system, Kim Jong-un's regime has cracked down on consumption of outside media.
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Koundougoumi, who lives in Paris for security reasons, said the government has cracked down on citizens under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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In the last month, police have cracked down on protesters several times, hitting them with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons.
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Some residents expressed mixed feelings about giving up local control, pointing out that the village government had cracked down on unkempt properties.
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A month after the shooting, YouTube cracked down on some fringe groups whose conspiracy-theory videos had climbed the site's "trending" list.
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It's a scientific field of inquiry that would have been unthinkable after governments cracked down on drugs in the 60s and 70s.
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Much of the information that has emerged from Rakhine has come from journalists, though Myanmar's authorities have cracked down on independent reporting.
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The Chinese government in Beijing has increasingly cracked down on Hong Kong politically, while steadily integrating the city's economy into the mainland's.
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Assad cracked down on dissenters, leading to a full-scale fight that has since ravaged Syria and the region for seven years.
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In total, Twitter says it has cracked down on a total of 636,280 accounts between August 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016.
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An insurgency erupted in late 2017 after the government cracked down on peaceful protests in Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest English-speaking regions.
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The railway administration has cracked down on ticket scalpers, and it has become common to order tickets online or from vending machines.
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The social media giant cracked down on 30,000 accounts last month ahead of the first round of voting in France's presidential election.
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Zuckerberg also called on governments around the world to clarify what constitutes harmful speech that needs to be cracked down on online.
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Tehran has violently cracked down on domestic protests triggered by an increase in gas prices and instituted a media and communications blackout.
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And at the center of the burgeoning epidemic, states cracked down on "pill mills," where doctors rapidly dispensed painkillers, often for cash.
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Not only has President Kenyatta's administration systematically cracked down on dissent, it is increasingly breaking the same laws he swore to protect.
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Then there's the issue with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has cracked down on Musk for tweeting too much about Tesla.
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In recent weeks, the government has cracked down on protesters demanding new leadership, killing at least 180 people and perhaps hundreds more.
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Current Liberal Premier Philippe Couillard reacted to news of the arrest by stressing that his party has cracked down on illegal fundraising.
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This happened in the 21995s and '000s as federal officials cracked down on trafficking from the Caribbean; trafficking simply moved to Mexico.
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In recent years he has aggressively cracked down on dissent and on his critics in politics, the military, academia and the press.
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The administration has already cracked down on CO2 emissions in the electricity sector through the Clean Power Plan and other EPA programs.
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The government has also cracked down on online organizing by blocking hundreds of websites, including many run by independent journalists and rights groups.
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The dictator cracked down on dissenters, leading to a full-scale fight that has since ravaged Syria and the region for seven years.
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The consumer protection agency has increasingly cracked down on apps making vague, health-related claims without having the science to back them up.
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The South Korean government has cracked down on defector groups who use balloons to send contraband and anti-Kim leaflets into North Korea.
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The UK police have in recent years cracked down on ad-supported sites that allow users to illegally download pirated films and music.
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Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party has cracked down on the opposition in recent months in the lead up to a 2018 election.
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The formerly acquisitive group has been working to improve its own finances since mid-2017 when China cracked down on aggressive foreign dealmaking.
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Facebook has also cracked down on certain types of link-sharing deals that many influencers have used to earn money on the side.
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Supported by outside powers, including Egypt, General Haftar still holds much sway in the east, where his forces have cracked down on dissent.
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Crackdown on 'pill mills' Federal authorities in recent years have cracked down on so-called "pill mills" from New York to New Orleans.
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The Chinese government has cracked down on three of the country's top live-streaming services over their apparent broadcast of unsuitable political content.
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Since then, he has detained tens of thousands of people, cracked down on dissent and carried out purges in the military and bureaucracy.
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Rather than implement harm reduction policies or limits on big festivals, Rodriguez maintains that the government cracked down on clubs across the board.
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They'd been exiled years earlier, as successive mayors cracked down on code violations and landlords nursed visions of converting everything into luxury condos.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently cracked down on "initial coin offerings," and sales of crypto mining equipment appear to have slowed.
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After assuming power, he initially cracked down on widespread petty corruption and cleaned up the civil service, which had functioned largely on bribes.
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Colorado has already cracked down on existing sources, and, it seems, no oil and gas company in Colorado has gone out of business.
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Around him, the United States-backed military dictatorship hunted Marxists and cracked down on the Catholic clergy for preaching empowerment to peasant farmers.
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The Infowars app is rising in the Apple store's rankings after a number of other major digital platforms cracked down on its content.
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As a part of that effort, Turkey has also cracked down on thousands of foreign fighters trying to cross its border into Syria.
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Large-scale industrial action is rare in Kazakhstan whose government, according to international human rights groups, has cracked down on independent trade unions.
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After the US government cracked down on Chinese tech giant Huawei last week, Google became the first American company to follow the ban.
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He famously cracked down on the collective bargaining rights of the state's public sector unions, the backlash from which motivated his attempted recall.
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Valve cracked down on the old scammers, but as Abstractism seems to show, they might have found a new way to make money.
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Platforms have cracked down on cloaking, a tactic that gets people to click something, often a video, by misleading them about its content.
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Security forces cracked down on the wider population, and rights groups accused them of killing, raping, burning villages and shooting civilians from helicopters.
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But the challenge of a tech company replicating Uber's fundraising today highlights just how much U.S. regulators have cracked down on foreign investment.
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Already, in the weeks before the vote, security forces had cracked down on protesters, killing several, and prevented opposition candidates from holding rallies.
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During his leadership he cracked down on political rivals and the independent news media that he called remnants of the old Communist regime.
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Llivia Journal LLIVIA, Spain — The Spanish police cracked down on parts of Catalonia in an attempt to halt an independence referendum on Oct.
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Under Mr. Qaddafi, Libyan security forces cracked down on anti-government protesters who gathered on the streets of Benghazi, Libya's second largest city.
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By filing her complaint in New Jersey, Carlson sought to take advantage of a court system that has cracked down on arbitration clauses.
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Mac explained that the bureau cracked down on predatory lenders, before diving into Warren's upbringing in Oklahoma and her family's brush with bankruptcy.
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Tensions have increased as Google has cracked down on what had long been a freewheeling work culture that encouraged employees to speak out.
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Shortly after the launch, the FDA cracked down on e-liquids marketed to resemble kid-friendly foods like juice boxes, candy and cookies.
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When security forces cracked down on protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election, thousands of young Iranians posted photos and videos on Twitter.
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Tens of thousands of Turks have been detained as Erdogan cracked down on the media and academia following an attempted coup in 2016.
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And Amazon has removed listings for products that made false claims about the virus and cracked down on price gouging on face masks.
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The FBI cracked down on those hackers, most notably Jeremy Hammond, a Chicago-based political activist who received a 10-year prison sentence.
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The soft-spoken Mr. Pichai has been reluctant to confront the protests head-on, but he has quietly cracked down on employee unrest.
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As a result, a federal judge cracked down on NOAA and the recreational quota was reduced by a 20% "buffer" to prevent overharvesting.
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But hopes were dimmed as the Iranian government violently cracked down on the recent protests and the U.S., in response, threatened more sanctions.
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The crown prince has sought to cast himself as a force for change and modernization even as he has cracked down on opponents.
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The Chinese government cracked down on A.S.M.R. videos last year because it said pornography was being released under the guise of the genre.
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Mr. Maduro has also cracked down on the press — including The New York Times, kicking a correspondent out of the country in 2016.
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In Russia, state-run media lionizes Mr. Putin, who has cracked down on dissent and systematically shut off political opportunities for the opposition.
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Privacy advocates cheered earlier this week when the Federal Communications Commission cracked down on Verizon for tracking its paying customers without their consent.
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Saudi Arabia also has a sizeable Shiite minority population, which the state has significantly cracked down on since the war in Yemen began.
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Since then, Facebook and Twitter have cracked down on rings of disinformation accounts promoting the interests of US adversaries including Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
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The city cracked down on gambling, streetcars were ripped out, disruptive one-way streets were established, and all of it crushed the local economy.
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When Mr Xi visited Prague in 2016 to upgrade the Chinese-Czech relationship to a "strategic partnership" police cracked down on pro-Tibet protests.
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Even as Saudi Arabia pushes a narrative of reform under its young crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, it has cracked down on dissent aggressively.
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Erdogan cracked down on the media and, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, has jailed more journalists than any country in the world.
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Look at how lovely this is: In June, Sudan's security forces cracked down on protesters, killing more than 100 and injuring at least 600.
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For starters, they have benefited from a decline in urban raves, where police have cracked down on the taking of "club drugs" like ecstasy.
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It cracked down on unoriginality by hiding videos ripped off from other creators, and began levying harsher demotions to repeat violators of its policies.
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He's cracked down on Turkey's freedom of the press and pushed constitutional changes that would consolidate dangerous amounts of power in the president's hands.
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While the FDA and FTC have cracked down on illicit vendors, sponsored content plays an indisputable role in attracting customers to these unregulated products.
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His opponents say he has since cracked down on dissent, and frequent protests have broken out in the capital Conakry and bauxite mining hubs.
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Twitter also cracked down on the Daily Stormer Wednesday and deleted several accounts associated with it, according to posts made by Auernheimer on Gab.io.
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Sisi has cracked down on Islamists, who he brands terrorists, and faces growing attacks, claimed by Islamic State, on soldiers and civilians in Sinai.
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During the sting operation from June 28 until Monday, authorities cracked down on three Illinois brothels and arrested a convicted child molester in Seattle.
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Beijing has increasingly cracked down on such debt-raising activities, stressing that it will not bail out local governments that run into financial difficulties.
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Beijing has recently cracked down on imports of DDGS, and domestic output of both rapeseed and cotton are set to fall sharply this year.
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She was one of more than a dozen protesters who were killed after police cracked down on demonstrators marking the anniversary of Egypt's revolution.
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The monarchy has a checkered history of human rights abuses, and has in recent years cracked down on activists, protesters, and perceived political enemies.
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The police cracked down on mercury producers in Sukabumi in 2017, shutting down three dozen furnaces and arresting about 100 people, including Mr. Cece.
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But growth has since slowed as Beijing reined in a red-hot property market and cracked down on lending to fend off financial risks.
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Since the election process began in August, Kenya's government has cracked down on civil society organizations and seen attacks on judges and election officials.
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Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing has increasingly cracked down on all forms of dissent, including human rights activists, labor groups and religious organizations.
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The U.N. Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Libya in 2011 when former leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.
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Smuggling has become even more difficult since governments in the region cracked down on the trade after it exploded into a crisis last year.
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Social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, have cracked down on threatening speech by kicking off some extremists in a move called de-platforming.
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He added that Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both cracked down on the adult industry to appeal to conservatives after they publicly stumbled.
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Discogs, a crowdsourced database of music info and a vinyl marketplace, cracked down on bootlegging in 2017, Gabriela Helfet reported for The Vinyl Factory.
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The Turkish leader stayed in power and immediately cracked down on any perceived dissent within the military, press, political elite, civil society, and more.
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The country's leader, Hun Sen, has cracked down on political opponents, activists and media, effectively transforming the struggling democracy into a one-party state.
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In 1930s post-slavery Brazil, "baianas," or community aunties, started hosting sambas in defiance of policies that cracked down on Afro-Brazilian religious customs.
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The government has cracked down on the press since the crisis began, so I'm one of the few foreign journalists left in the country.
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It has cracked down on video games and online news in recent months, and in general has taken a greater role in private enterprise.
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Google has cracked down on its freewheeling work culture, and it recently began working with a consulting firm known for its anti-union efforts.
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In fact, they had seen PayPal's business boom and were now rich precisely because it had cracked down on fraud and established consumer trust.
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" The company has since staunchly cracked down on fake stories and introduced new features and updated its algorithms to detect and combat "fake news.
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Amazon has also cracked down on products making fake claims about coronavirus, a problem that could escalate as the disease continues to spread globally.
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The second measure, which would have cracked down on cities that don't comply with federal immigration laws, also fell in a 28503-22019 vote.
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Police from Britain and the Netherlands have cracked down on shipments through the Caribbean, so traffickers are moving their product through west Africa instead.
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The entertainment company doesn't appear to have cracked down on many of these items yet, but that may not continue to be the case.
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His remarks hit a nerve in Italy, where the populist government has cracked down on immigration and denied entry to ships that rescued migrants.
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During his past four years in power, Sisi has cracked down on civil liberties and brought the country's political system squarely under his grip.
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In recent years however, Chinese authorities have cracked down on the trade, alongside a high-profile publicity campaign encouraging people not to buy wildlife goods.
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That may be why Trump has been reticent to kill DACA, even as he's cracked down on immigration enforcement in his first months in office.
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That advantage, if it could be described as such, has shrunk in recent years as Beijing has cracked down on domestic companies and illegal extractors.
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He rewrote the constitution to cement his grip on power and brutally cracked down on dissent and opposition, leading many to call him a dictator.
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Private enterprises have struggled in the last two years as Beijing cracked down on their primary means of financing, the so-called shadow banking system.
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Chinese authorities also cracked down on World Cup betting in Guandong, arresting 540 and freezing 260 million yuan ($39 million) in assets, the Post wrote.
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In March, Twitter cracked down on "tweetdeckers," who steal tweets, then work to get them viral on their own accounts which often have large fanbases.
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To maximize income from the shows, Mr. Stigwood cracked down on unlicensed performances of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in the United States, including high school productions.
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Since 2015, U.S. and California regulators have cracked down on automakers who cheat on emissions testing after Volkswagen's use of defeat devices became public knowledge.
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Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the Islamist, secular and liberal opposition alike since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then the military chief, toppled Mursi.
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The coalition initially seemed to tolerate jihadis in the south, as they shared its anti-Houthi agenda, but later cracked down on them, he said.
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Facebook and Twitter have also cracked down on political advertising, recently making it easier for users to view who created and paid for political ads.
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The video also spread rapidly on YouTube and Twitter, and was shared in private messaging apps after the tech companies cracked down on public posts.
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The city cracked down on Mohamed in 2015 over his so-called 'Starship Enterprise' mega-mansion, which was illegally built out to 30,000 sq. feet.
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The Chinese government has cracked down on outbound investment by Chinese firms since late last year after accelerating capital outflows exacerbated depreciation of the yuan .
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In recent years however, Chinese authorities have cracked down on the trade, alongside a high-profile publicity campaign encouraging people not to buy wildlife goods.
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Law enforcement cracked down on the pain mills, but according to the new lawsuit, Walgreens has distributed billions of opioids in the state since 2006.
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But a regulatory clampdown on risky lending helped cool the sector while interest from Chinese buyers evaporated as authorities there cracked down on capital flows.
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Some web users have circumvented the blocks through virtual private networks (VPNs) and other software, though the government has recently cracked down on social media.
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Our fiscal and regulatory policies have created record job growth; we cracked down on human trafficking and passed legislation helping the survivors of sexual assault.
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The Post reported last week that the company has recently cracked down on the accounts, suspending more than 70 million accounts in May and June.
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Former President Obama also cracked down on leaks, prosecuting at least eight people under the Espionage Act for the disclosures during his time in office.
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The FSA has cracked down on cryptocurrency exchanges since the $530 million theft of digital money from Coincheck, one of Japan's biggest, earlier this year.
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He sometimes considered them a way to blunt the edge of suffocating sanctions from the outside world, but other times cracked down on them harshly.
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Particular attention has focused on the role of Delhi police chief B.S. Bassi, who has cracked down on student agitators but not acted against Sharma.
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Agencies also cracked down on removable storage devices like CDs and thumb drives, literally gluing drives shut or disabling the software required to use them.
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Last year, Germany cracked down on parents who refused to vaccinate their babies before enrolling them in kindergarten, and France introduced fines against noncompliant parents.
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It was part of a spate of actions by the bureau, which has cracked down on debt collectors, the student loan industry and payday lenders.
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In 2011, as waves of discontent spread into the United Arab Emirates, the government cracked down on reformers, jailing protesters and successfully maintaining its power.
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Facebook has cracked down on misinformation as COVID-19 spreads, and relies heavily on machine learning systems to weed out content that violates its policies.
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President Mauricio Macri, the son of an Italian immigrant, cracked down on immigrants early this year, prompting comparisons to President Trump and his travel ban.
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As Party Secretary of Tibet from 2011 to 2016, Chen rolled out mass surveillance and cracked down on expressions of Tibetan identity, religion or language.
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"Prevention Through Deterrence" came to define border enforcement in the 1990s, when the Border Patrol cracked down on migrant crossings in cities like El Paso.
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Two years ago, a coalition of more than 30 state attorneys general cracked down on the credit bureaus, negotiating a deal that required sweeping changes.
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The problem in Mexico over the past decade is not only that the government has cracked down on traffickers by burning opium and marijuana fields.
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Conde's opponents, however, say he has cracked down on dissent since coming to office after years as an opposition figurehead fighting against Conte's authoritarian rule.
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But in 2017, as Bitcoin's value soared and speculative frenzy raged, China shut down cryptocurrency exchanges and cracked down on fund-raising through virtual coins.
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It cracked down on fake accounts, purging suspicious accounts from users' follower metrics and removed 143,000 apps between April and June for violating its policies.
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Neighboring Myanmar's military cracked down on Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine state following Rohingya militant attacks on an army base and police posts on Aug. 25.
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That measure, known as the CREATES Act, would have cracked down on drug companies using delay tactics to fend off competition from cheaper generic drugs.
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The Chinese government has cracked down on outbound investment by Chinese firms since late last year after accelerating capital outflows exacerbated depreciation of the yuan.
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The bureau cracked down on aggressive and fraudulent debt collectors and streamlined the processes by which the public can report financial abuse to the government.
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U.S. pharmaceutical company AbbVie abandoned its $55 billion takeover of Ireland-domiciled peer Shire Plc after the Obama administration cracked down on inversions in 2014.
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Many of them, usually offering vocational training, have had to close outlets as the federal government cracked down on their advertising and student loan practices.
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Republican Governor Doug Ducey reached out to Uber in 2016 after California regulators cracked down on the company over its failure to obtain testing permits.
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Of course, a flood of stronger, more dangerous, and cheaper drugs was not what doctors and regulators were seeking when Scotland cracked down on benzos.
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Since taking power in the May 2014 coup the junta has moved to root out Thaksin's influence and has cracked down on activists, journalists and dissidents.
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Per the Reddit post, the scheme went on from August to December 2017, at which point corporate apparently caught wind and cracked down on the practice.
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Coming to grips with this exodus was complicated by an information blackout in northwestern Rakhine State where the military had cracked down on the Muslim minority.
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Hundreds of people were killed on June 4, 1989, as People's Liberation Army troops cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has also cracked down on dissent, including public gatherings, making a repeat of the events more than 40 years ago unlikely.
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The U.S. government previously increased screenings for illegal pork products at airports and cracked down on smuggling in an effort to keep out African swine fever.
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Trump has cracked down on other federal agency websites, but the HHS website still praises Obamacare and features a link to sign up for the program.
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Disposable e-cigarettes are generally cheaper than the other products, and have rapidly gained popularity among young people as regulators have cracked down on other devices.
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For example, as Amazon cracked down on a growing problem with counterfeit products, bad actors have used fake counterfeit complaints to get legitimate sellers taken offline.
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After a spate of grisly terrorist attacks on foreigners, gay people and outspoken secularists in recent years, the government has cracked down on violent Islamist groups.
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But Turkey's government has also severely cracked down on any Turks who've questioned the war, a further sign of the erosion of political space under Erdogan.
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Jersey City, just a four-minute train ride from Manhattan, has become increasingly valuable to Airbnb as New York City has cracked down on illegal Airbnbs.
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But it is only in the past few years that international banks have started refusing to deal with Sudan, after America cracked down on sanctions-busters.
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And while the Ugandan government has cracked down on female genital mutilation, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni himself has given the Imbalu practice his stamp of approval.
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Chinese authorities have reportedly cracked down on human trafficking, but the task has been complicated by difficult terrain and porous borders in parts of the country.
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It's unclear if the FTC has investigated social media posts featuring spokesdogs yet, but federal agencies have cracked down on their human counterparts like Kim Kardashian.
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The agency has cracked down on frauds in initial coin offerings, or ICOs, since bitcoin's epic rise to almost $20,000 at the end of last year.
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Although Maduro's government has cracked down on freedom of expression in the Latin American country, López continues to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
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In the five-and-a-half years since Assad's regime cracked down on a March 2011 anti-government demonstration, an estimated 430,000 people have been killed.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission cracked down on the fundraising method last year, and Chairman Jay Clayton repeatedly urged crypto founders to register with the agency.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cracked down on e-cigarette makers during the past year as a teenage usage of the product has surged.
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The number of online P2P platforms has shrunk dramatically in recent years as Beijing has cracked down on risky lending practices in a broader deleveraging campaign.
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The hardline Revolutionary Guards and judiciary cracked down on the protests and placed Mousavi under house arrest, alongside fellow candidate Mehdi Karroubi, where they both remain.
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The country has also cracked down on online speech, jailing those who express support for terrorist groups or other forms of hate speech on social media.
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Since taking office more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has cracked down on dissent, reining in the media and detaining dozens of rights activists.
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The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has cracked down on "pill mills" that reaped handsome profits from prescribing opioids to anyone who showed up to claim them.
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Last month, Facebook and other major online platforms cracked down on alleged Iranian and Russian operations that used fake accounts to meddle in other countries' elections.
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"President Yameen has jailed every opposition leader and cracked down on anyone who dares to oppose or criticize him," Mr. Nasheed said in his office's statement.
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Turkey, under pressure from the European Union to curb the flow of illegal migration into Europe, has cracked down on cross-border trafficking in recent months.
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The company cracked down on annual passholders and asked for reservations for entry to try to avoid a flood, and instead ended up with a trickle.
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In response to the spread of the movement, the government cracked down on social media leaders and announced draft legislation to address so-called "cyber terror".
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Free market advocates said modifying Section 85033 could result in more censorship of speech online as companies cracked down on controversial content to avoid legal action.
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U.S. trash companies are increasingly having to send what would have been waste-paper recycling to landfills after China cracked down on Americans' sloppy recycling habits.
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For example, the company has cracked down on "clone" and apps made from templates or white label products as a way to quickly weed out spam.
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Regulators have cracked down on some of Goldman's longtime strongholds, such as trading, and have forced big banks to maintain bigger capital cushions for some assets.
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The UN cracked down on North Korea's sales of its huge socialist-style statues this year in response to a nuclear test it conducted in September.
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In May, Myanmar's highest Buddhist authority, the Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, a government appointed body, cracked down on the group, ordering it to take down signs.
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The agency has cracked down on ICOs year: It has continuously warned of pump-and-dump schemes, issued subpoenas and charged multiple coin projects with fraud.
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The SEC has cracked down on ICOs, which raised $6.6 billion in 2017 and have hit $9.1 billion this year, according to research firm Autonomous Next.
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Investigators have cracked down on brokers said to have arranged the marriages, arresting two dozen Chinese citizens and several Pakistanis and charging them with human trafficking.
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In response, Linden Lab cracked down on "age-play," sexual role-play between a child avatar and an adult avatar, generally both operated by IRL adults.
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Security forces in Ethiopia cracked down on protesters last year, some of whom had attacked domestic and foreign businesses, which had resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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Muslim-majority countries such as Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia have cracked down on LGBT+ rights, said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.
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China has cracked down on ethnic minorities like the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking group of mostly Sunni Muslims, who form the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang.
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In Hungary, where Mr. Soros was born, the increasingly authoritarian government has cracked down on a university he founded after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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On the other side of the border, the situation continued to worsen, as Chinese President Xi Jinping secured power for life and cracked down on dissent.
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However, it's grown decadent and corrupt over the decades, and under the reign of Lady Sanao Hekate, The Protector, it's brutally cracked down on its citizens.
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Later, as an assistant United States attorney in Richmond, Va., he cracked down on felons arrested with guns and brought charges in a major terrorism case.
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Madrid has declared that the secession effort violates the country's constitution, and have cracked down on attempts to hold a referendum on secession on Oct. 1.
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Ankara has cracked down on suspected followers of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, since the coup attempt in which some 250 people were killed.
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Chinese regulators are reviewing deal agreements in minute details, and have cracked down on some large domestic conglomerates, including Fosun, for their debt-fuelled acquisitions abroad.
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YouTube crackdown: The league has cracked down on YouTube creators for using unlicensed videos, a move that threatens the quasi-legal world of NBA highlight channels.
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Chinese authorities have cracked down on the cryptocurrency business to try to limit risks as consumers pile into a highly speculative market that has grown rapidly.
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Mines began reopening in the final months of Barack Obama's presidency, when he cracked down on steel dumping, and that growth has continued under Mr. Trump.
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The push has been strong enough to maintain growth, even as officials have cracked down on other types of lending that they see as potentially disruptive.
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Mr. Trump has also cracked down on undocumented immigrants, many of whom are Mexican, and threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Heroin abuse surged in Lake County after Florida's state legislature cracked down on loosely regulated pain clinics — known as "pill mills" — in 2011, said Lt. Herrell.
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He backed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 6900 that cracked down on illegal downloading of music and movies and helped put Napster out of business.
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Turkish authorities have cracked down on any expression of dissent over the air and ground offensive against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria's Afrin region.
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Soviet authorities brutally cracked down on dissent, throwing people into labor camps, psychiatric hospitals, and, at the height of its repressions, shooting them after show trials.
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When the internal-affairs unit launched a sting operation against a friend of Shokin's, Shokin cracked down on Sakvarelidze's team, prompting anti-corruption activists to protest.
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Tom Marino (R-Pa.), who helped draft a law that cracked down on the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to punish drug companies that illicitly distribute opioids.
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China cracked down on crypto miners – who verify transactions and release new currency units – and offshore trading this year, having already banned domestic trading in 2017.
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In recent years, the F.D.A. has cracked down on several sectors of the industry, including dietary supplements sold for weight loss, sexual function and energy enhancement.
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Barack Obama has cracked down on leaks; taken military action in places like Libya without congressional authorization; and greatly expanded extrajudicial killing via the drone war.
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In 2013, it cracked down on 23andMe, ordering the company to cease providing analyses of people's risk factors for disease until the tests' accuracy could be validated.
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YouTube, which is owned by Google, has cracked down on extremist content in recent months, doing everything from removing ISIS propaganda videos to demonetizing conspiracy theory channels.
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Castro was baptized and educated by Jesuits, but after the Cuban communist leader cracked down on the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John XXIII excommunicated him in 1962.
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This week, the US Food and Drug Administration cracked down on e-cigarettes, a move that the vaping industry fears will put many companies out of business.
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Instead of healing his divided country after the coup in July, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cracked down on his opponents, including Kurdish activists, leftists and secularists.
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Plus, while many companies are well versed in online scams and have cracked down on onscreen pop-ups, our smartphones are a relatively weak link in comparison.
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Social media companies such as Reddit have continually cracked down on so-called creepshots—revealing, close-up images of women taken without their consent, often in public.
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That Reddit has cracked down on r/altright is a positive sign for anyone who's worried that the site's overall culture has skewed in increasingly dangerous directions.
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It remains unclear whether security forces will take a stronger line under President Xi Jinping who has cracked down on rights activists across China since taking office.
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Since the attempted coup on July 15, Turkey has cracked down on various agencies and individuals suspected of having ties to it, including journalists, judges and professors.
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As deadly clashes between security forces and PKK militants have escalated over the last year, the Turkish government has increasingly cracked down on Kurdish politicians and media.
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Australia, for example, has effectively banned carriers from using Huawei's gear to build 5G networks, and other countries, including Japan, have also cracked down on the company.
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They were the latest arrests by the army, which took power in a May 2014 coup and has since curbed basic freedoms and cracked down on critics.
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The government has also cracked down on opposition journalists, and, most recently, Ahmet Davutoglu was ousted as prime minister last month after weeks of tension with Erdogan.
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For Facebook, these ads bog down load times for outside links and thus hamper user experience—something the company recently cracked down on via an algorithm tweak.
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Najib's administration has cracked down on the media and civil society in an attempt to silence criticism over his involvement in a money-laundering scandal at 1MDB.
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Immigration advocates and attorneys say that while the Trump administration has undoubtedly cracked down on immigration, ICE agents are mostly going after soft targets — not hardened criminals.
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The city, which has declared a public health emergency, also shut schools on Monday and Tuesday, and banned construction and cracked down on the burning of rubbish.
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District officials in Thane said they had cracked down on illegal sand mining, seizing over 200 trucks between April and May and collecting 360,000 rupees in fines.
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For example, the U.S. has cracked down on Chinese tech giants like Huawei, saying the firm's close ties to the Chinese government pose a national security risk.
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Even so, there is substantial regulatory risk: Beijing cracked down on local cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and the state planner's position on this niche activity remains uncertain.
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The city, which has declared a public health emergency, also shut schools on Monday and Tuesday, and banned construction and cracked down on the burning of rubbish.
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If the Supreme Court upholds the Texas law, it could bolster similar laws in dozens of other states that have cracked down on abortion in recent years.
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The agency has cracked down on ICOs this year: It has continuously warned of pump-and-dump schemes, issued subpoenas and charged multiple coin projects with fraud.
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The Hungarian leader has cracked down on nongovernmental organizations, opposition parties and an independent media, cementing his own party's power with a sweeping victory in April's elections.
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Still, it's rare for Democrats to help unseat colleagues in their own party — and the Democratic Party establishment has already cracked down on primary challengers this year.
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Haykel says wealthy Saudis who say they built their fortunes through legitimate channels are "ecstatic" that Crown Prince Mohammed cracked down on allegedly corrupt princes and officials.
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Sanderson Farms Inc, the third-largest U.S. poultry producer, cracked down on the movement of people and vehicles into its facilities, said Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer.
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Twitter has cracked down on fake and misleading accounts this year, which the social media company said on Thursday was partly responsible for its decline in users.
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The Venezuelan government has recently cracked down on independent newspapers and radio networks in an effort to silence any voices critical of the ruling left-wing party.
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Though Indian security forces stationed in the valley have cracked down on armed insurgents, outnumbering the militants 1,000 to one, they are struggling to stem fresh recruitment.
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While FSKN agents cracked down on low-level drug use, the agency's leaders were allegedly helping one of Russia's most notorious gangs smuggle cocaine and launder money.
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In recent weeks, China has also cracked down on reporting about the coronavirus outbreak, in some cases stipulating that medical professionals must stop speaking to the reporters.
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The tweet referred to Tester's vote in February that helped block a proposal that would have cracked down on cities that don't comply with federal immigration law.
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Chinese authorities have stepped up regulatory curbs to defuse financial risks and cracked down on risky lending practises, with the central bank shifting toward more tighter policy.
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The Iranian government has reportedly cracked down on social media use in the state in order to mollify the demonstrations that have spiked up across the country.
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Dozens of civilians have been killed since October, after the government cracked down on members of a movement protesting their perceived marginalization by Cameroon's Francophone-dominated government.
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The agency has cracked down on cryptocurrency-related fraud in the past year, with a series of investor bulletins, stock trading suspensions and initial coin offering halts.
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In March 1965, much of the country was shaken by the brutal violence they saw when police cracked down on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama.
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It is also preparing for the return of a million Afghan refugees from neighboring countries, particularly Pakistan, whose government has cracked down on undocumented Afghans living there.
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In the last few years, the capital city has cracked down on old neighborhoods that once held many street food vendors and closed areas it considered unsanitary.
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But Pfizer walked away from the transaction in 2016 after the Obama administration cracked down on U.S. companies' ability to rebase in countries with lower tax rates.
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As the city cracked down on the drug gangs that held sway there in the 1990s, crime plummeted, and the area began drawing professionals and young families.
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As security forces cracked down on all areas of public life in Egypt, he imposed military law and readied himself for the presidential election in May 2014.
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Since toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013, Sisi's government has cracked down on the opposition, killing hundreds of Brotherhood supporters and jailing thousands.
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For example, Amazon recently cracked down on incentivized reviews (those where the reviewer received a free product or discount), in an effort to make its reviews more authentic.
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A lot of these companies used to get financing from China's shadow-banking system, so when authorities cracked down on that in 2017 and 2018, they got squeezed.
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That number has since risen above 600,000, but the flows have slowed dramatically over the past two years as successive governments in Rome cracked down on people smuggling.
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He has already cracked down on Kurdish nationalism domestically, and considers the armed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which operates in northeastern Syria, to be a terror organization.
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Apple cracked down on Facebook in a similar way on Wednesday, after the company's app called Facebook Research was found to be in violation of App Store policies.
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From time to time - usually as a result of outside pressure - Pakistan has cracked down on anti-India militants but most factions manage to survive and resume activities.
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The Supreme Court has cracked down on maps for state legislatures and for Congress that sort voters illicitly by race, but it has never curtailed purely partisan gerrymandering.
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Global markets continue to fret about the outlook for China as policymakers have tightened financial conditions and cracked down on wanton growth in debt to defuse bubble risks.
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Various states from Telangana to Chhattisgarh have in the past decade cracked down on small private clinics that performed the surgery frequently to claim state health insurance funds.
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Beijing has cracked down on free expression since Xi became party boss in 2012, detaining and jailing activists and lawyers, muzzling internet critics and strengthening restrictions on journalists.
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Many states cracked down on the process when legislators thought they got bad deals out of the tobacco lawsuits, and started limiting contingency rates or requiring competitive bidding.
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He took a keen interest in protecting the interests of small investors and cracked down on ponzi schemes by chit funds and collective investment schemes around the country.
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For much of the 1990s, security forces in Karachi cracked down on the party much like they are now, pushing Hussain to seek asylum in the United Kingdom.
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Authorities changed their initial account of the shooting two days later, adding to the controversy at a time when the White House has cracked down on undocumented immigrants.
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The European Commission and its member states have grown increasingly skeptical of Turkey's accession process as Erdogan has cracked down on opponents and sought to increase his power.
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Africa's most industrialised economy has over the years cracked down on price-fixing cartels in the construction sector and recently investigated steel, auto component and glass products industries.
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While it is the country's military that has cracked down on the Rohingya in this latest spasm of violence, Suu Kyi is considered the country's de facto leader.
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Sessions has cracked down on rules on asylum, potentially reducing claims by the thousands by deciding that victims of domestic and gang violence are not eligible for protection.
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He had purged the judiciary; jailed insouciant senior military officers three years ago and installed seemingly compliant successors; and cracked down on the opposition and the news media.
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Since a coup in 2014, the Thai authorities have increasingly cracked down on internet freedom, and Facebook has previously been accused of censoring content that criticizes the regime.
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President Xi Jinping of China has cracked down on signs of conspicuous consumption and also guided the country's ruling Communist Party to a new primacy in everyday life.
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At least five militants have been killed in shootouts since November as security forces have cracked down on Islamist militants looking to establish a sharia-based Muslim state.
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Denied a dock by Italy and Malta — most of Europe has cracked down on migrants crossing the Mediterranean — Proactiva Open Arms secured a port of entry in Barcelona.
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But after the Obama administration and a group of state attorneys general cracked down on vocational schools that lured students in with false promises, several large chains collapsed.
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But while the Trump administration has cracked down on Russian diplomats, government officials and oligarchs, Mr. Trump himself largely has taken a far more generous stance toward Moscow.
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Alarmed that Muslim Brotherhood parties might rise to power through elections, all three governments have cracked down on the Islamists and pressed their allies to do the same.
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He has harshly cracked down on activists, imprisoned royal family members and businessmen without due process on corruption charges and briefly held hostage the prime minister of Lebanon.
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It was this advocacy of moral action that apparently appeals to the no-nonsense Mr. Xi, who has cracked down on vice and corruption within the party's ranks.
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The big picture: The significant drop in border activity comes as Mexico has cracked down on immigration enforcement following President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexican goods.
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It is too simple to suggest that all the people with an addiction to painkillers had simply switched to heroin as doctors cracked down on overprescribing, said Earley.
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The president's January executive orders expanded federal immigration authority, as well as the definition of who could be considered a criminal alien, and cracked down on sanctuary cities.
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In the years since the Arab Spring, the UAE has cracked down on dissidents and activists who criticize the government online, locking up dozens over the last decade.
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Bringing in coke from elsewhere could also add to pressure on the country's rail system after China cracked down on diesel trucks carrying bulk commodities in many regions.
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The company has grappled with internal strife recently, including accusations that it has retaliated against organizers of a global walkout and cracked down on dissent inside the company.
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Mr. Sisi first cracked down on the Islamists, including a 2013 massacre that killed more than 800 people, then turned his sights on secular opponents and nongovernmental groups.
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But in the weeks that followed, the Jubilee administration cracked down on civil society organizations, publicly criticized and undermined Kenya's judicial system, and allowed police killings with impunity.
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Requiring association health plans to follow the same rules as small businesses was one of the many ways the Affordable Care Act cracked down on skimpy health plans.
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Bush, president from 2001 to 2009, emphasized the important role of immigrants and of international trade, two policy areas that Trump has cracked down on while in office.
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Last year, Iran cracked down on protests over poor living standards that posed the most serious challenge to its clerical elite since a 2009 uprising over disputed elections.
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The most common explanation is that as neighboring communities like Scarsdale and Rye have become saturated with new housing, and cracked down on it, developers are looking farther afield.
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"The Venezuelan government has brutally cracked down on members of the military accused of plotting against it," Human Rights Watch Americas director Jose Miguel Vivanco said in a statement.
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Wanda's access to offshore funding has been restricted since mid-2016 when Chinese authorities cracked down on "irrational" overseas acquisitions and tightened capital controls to shore up the renminbi.
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Meanwhile, in Thailand, authorities in both the capital city Bangkok and Chiang Mai, where Uber launched in late 2016, have also cracked down on so-called unlicensed taxi operators.
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The central bank, which hoped the 2000 percent devaluation would relieve downward pressure on the Egyptian pound, has cracked down on exchange bureaux trading far outside its set range.
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The U.S. government has cracked down on the tech firm, effectively blacklisting it from doing business with American businesses, on the basis of claims it is a security risk.
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The SEC previously cracked down on Silicon Valley a decade ago, after The Wall Street Journal revealed that tech companies were backdating stock option grants to increase CEO payouts.
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The government has cracked down on illegal water use, announced a slight price increase and plans to ramp up waste water treatment for use in agriculture as budgets permit.
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In the past, the company has cracked down on click bait by trying to identify patterns in headlines or by watching which posts people click and then immediately abandon.
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While Ankara has cracked down on smuggling across the Mediterranean, many refugees and migrants who had made it across before are being stranded on Greek islands in poor conditions.
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Hun Sen, Cambodia's prime minister since 1985, has cracked down on dissent, imprisoning opposition leaders, shutting down newspapers and radio stations and kicking several NGOs out of the country.
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In the weeks that have followed the failed coup in Turkey, authorities have cracked down on who they think are followers of the movement that allegedly planned the rebellion.
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The Olympics not only cracked down on media outlets and individuals, it also made it very clear that non-sponsor brands had to cancel their social media parties too.
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But Sri Lanka, like other countries in Asia that have cracked down on drugs, feels it is being overwhelmed by narcotics and the president said recently action was needed.
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Neighboring Tanzania, once one of Africa's most attractive jurisdictions for international investors, has also cracked down on the industry, hitting gold miner Acacia with a $190 billion tax bill.
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The civil war started after President Bashar al-Assad's regime violently cracked down on peaceful protesters, and ordinary citizens took up arms to try to oust his dynastic regime.
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As TechCrunch noted in December 2018, Apple does appear to have cracked down on third-party screen time and parental control trackers in general after it launched iOS 12.
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Formerly acquisitive HNA - a planes-to-banking Chinese conglomerate - has been working to improve its finances since China cracked down on aggressive debt-fueled foreign dealmaking in mid-2017.
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China's regulators have already cracked down on everything from rude joke apps to livestream bloggers disrespecting national anthem - sending a chill through the free-wheeling and innovative online arena.
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He increased early childhood education, boosted Pell Grants, poured money into community colleges, made it easier to pay back student loans, and cracked down on exploitative for-profit universities.
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There are several causes for the recent volatility: Chinese regulators cracked down on bitcoin exchanges, while U.S. authorities rejected a proposal for a bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF).
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The state's number of undocumented immigrants has fallen 22 percent from a 23 peak to 325,000, according to the Pew Research Center, as Arizona cracked down on that population.
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But, a recent regulatory clampdown on risky lending helped cool the once-booming sector while interest from Chinese buyers has evaporated as authorities there cracked down on capital flows.
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Security forces including the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have occasionally cracked down on protests, and in early June crushed a sit-in outside the Defense Ministry, killing dozens.
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The club apparently cracked down on gang symbols after complaints and upped the number of security guards and cameras in the space following a large scuffle on the floor.
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Stories from InfoWars and Breitbart News regularly reached Trump's Oval Office desk until White House Chief of Staff John Kelly cracked down on the president's information streams last year.
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It lost about $500 in one day earlier this week after indications of greater U.S. regulation, and briefly lost $2,000 in September after China cracked down on digital currencies.
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At the same time, the government has cracked down on daigous, shoppers-for-hire who trade off that price imbalance and buy goods more cheaply overseas for mainland Chinese.
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Beijing has cracked down on other groups that, like Tomorrow, have used cash from insurance products to invest aggressively in riskier deals in areas such as property and soccer.
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Uber pulled out of Taiwan less than a month ago over mounting fines from regulators, while Thai authorities have cracked down on drivers following protests from unhappy taxi firms.
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Trump repeatedly praised Putin — who has brought the country to one-man rule, cracked down on dissent, arrested political opponents, and killed or exiled journalists — as a strong leader.
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Faced with international outrage — and the lowest ranking on the State Department's 2015 Trafficking in Persons report — the Thai government suddenly cracked down on trafficking rings in the region.
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In July, Chinese arrivals fell 0.9 percent from a year earlier for their first drop since the start of 2017, when the government cracked down on cheap tour packages.
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The European security sources said the route via Russia had developed as China, North Korea's neighbor and lone major ally, cracked down on exports from the secretive Communist state.
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Since taking office more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has cracked down on dissent, reining in the media and civil society and detaining dozens of rights activists.
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As Silicon Valley has cracked down on perceived hate speech in lock step, many on the right are questioning whether the free market will protect the marketplace of ideas.
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The social network has said it will not fact-check ads bought by political candidates, but has cracked down on misleading ads bought by third parties like super PACs.
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Following the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Rouhani&aposs administration cracked down on the IRGC&aposs business networks and opened contract bidding to domestic competition.
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In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has cracked down on social media, making it a crime to criticize the country, its citizens or businesses on Facebook or Twitter.
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The Pakistani government has cracked down on brokers said to have arranged the marriages, arresting at least two dozen Chinese citizens and Pakistanis and charging them with human trafficking.
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It cracked down on abusive debt collectors, strengthened protections for mortgage borrowers and created a complaints system that helped hundreds of thousands of people resolve disputes with financial companies.
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State and federal officials have cracked down on suspected malfeasance at shelters in the past year, closing multiple facilities, including two run by Southwest Key, and moving children elsewhere.
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Although the government has sharply increased Pemex's budget for oil production, cut taxes and cracked down on fuel theft, the company's spending will fall far short of that target.
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He spent much of his first year in office working to deliver universal pre-K, and he succeeded; he expanded affordable housing; he cracked down on stop-and-frisk.
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Italy's populist government has cracked down on immigration and says the charity ships that once partnered with navy vessels are aiding smugglers who shuttle migrants from Libya to Europe.
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States and the federal governments have cracked down on the prescribing of opioids, and many chronic pain patients have complained about being undertreated or losing access to opioids entirely.
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And it would block the Trump administration from rolling back Obama-era rules that cracked down on for-profit diploma mills and demanded tougher investigations of campus sexual assaults.
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China cracked down on digital currencies in September and the share of yuan-bitcoin trading has fallen drastically to less than 5 percent after dominating the market for years.
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But by then the police had cracked down on stowaways, and he wasn't able to get near the container ship he'd scoped out at the port in La Goulette.
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Worth noting: The NBA has been considering scheduling changes and cracked down on YouTube accounts for several years, so those aren't necessarily knee-jerk reactions to the ratings decline.
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But the bishop showed similar deference to Mr. Sisi, who has cracked down on civil rights and dissent in Egypt, often with the support of the country's Christian leaders.
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The tool connected users through Twitter, and when Twitter launched its own live streaming service Periscope, it cracked down on Meerkat and limited its access to the Twitter API.
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President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had proposed the measure after police cracked down on a group of mothers making cannabis oil in a makeshift laboratory to treat their epileptic children.
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To that end, Beijing has carried out mass security operations and cracked down on dissent in Tibet and the far western province of Xinjang, home to large minority groups.
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He has raised the minimum wage, won a new labor law, cracked down on fuel theft and pushed Mexico to do more to produce its own food and energy.
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European Union regulators have long cracked down on Facebook and Google for antitrust and privacy violations and are now openly calling for higher taxes on digital firms in general.
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The United States sanctioned President Nicolas Maduro and other Venezuelan officials after Maduro established a constituent assembly run by his Socialist Party loyalists and cracked down on widespread opposition.
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YouTube has since cracked down on extremist videos and hate speech on YouTube and demonetized many videos, barring any ads from showing up on certain types of controversial content.
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Chinese regulators have cracked down on outbound capital flows that had exacerbated a selloff in the yuan currency and have criticized some Chinese firms for making "irrational" overseas investments.
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The 22020 law signed by former President Obama cracked down on the financial sector through tougher oversight, stricter crisis prevention measures and harsher penalties for dangerous or abusive conduct.
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And as the US cracked down on trafficking in the Caribbean, drug producers and traffickers went to Mexico — which is why we're now talking about Mexico to begin with.
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The Egyptian government has cracked down on media outlets in recent months, blocking access to sites Al Jazeera, Mada Masr, and 19 others for coverage it deems unfairly critical.
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Uncle Sam cracked down on business owners' schmoozing with clients in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, curtailing the extent to which they can claim deductions for meals and entertainment.
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Elected ostensibly as a populist in 2015, Magufuli has cracked down on political speech he doesn't like and has pushed socially conservative issues to the top of the national agenda.
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In the wake of the failed rebellion, Erdogan notoriously cracked down on journalists and supposed dissidents, jailing thousands of Turkish citizens and officials accused of conspiring with Gulen against him.
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In the last year, a number of governments turned a blind eye to war crimes, cracked down on freedom of expression, and justified torture and mass surveillance, the report said.
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"We cracked down on bogus stem cell therapies, on sham homeopathy, on unsafe medical device products, on tobacco sales to minors, on unsafe dietary supplements, and on kratom," Gottlieb wrote.
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Those positions have become harder to fill with foreign workers since 2017 due to the Trump Administration's policies that have limited immigration and cracked down on H-1B visa approvals.
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The measure tightened American borders and cracked down on undocumented immigrants and legal permanent residents who had children or families residing in the U.S. FAIR's fingerprints were all over it.
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But the authorities have since cracked down on corruption among the elite and tightened enforcement of a limit of $25,22016 per person on access to dollars and other foreign currencies.
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But as more countries pay him heed, they risk empowering a would-be strongman who has cracked down on dissent and squeezed civil liberties in the areas under his control.
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In May, Moroccan authorities cracked down on Hirak Rif&aposs leaders and a large number of protesters, arresting between 330-400 people, according to the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH).
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Beyond long-term blocks on Facebook, Twitter, Google and other Western internet services, China has increasingly cracked down on freedom of speech online in recent years under President Xi Jinping.
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A sharp jump year-on-year reflected the sustained pick-up in buying of lower priced foreign coal over the past year after the government cracked down on domestic mining.
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The kingdom has cracked down on suspected militants in recent years, imposing prison terms of several years for suspected sympathizers, including those expressing support for militant ideology on social media.
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Last year, authorities in the capital Rome cracked down on the armies of people who hawk sightseeing tours, rickshaw rides, and photos with centurions around the Colosseum amphitheatre, prompting protests.
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While streaming services generally haven't cracked down on those who share passwords, they do retain the ability to monitor how you use their service and may send warnings to violators.
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Months later, the Chinese government violently cracked down on pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square, sending China's favorability in the U.S. plummeting to 34 percent by the end of 1989.
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But earlier this year, San Francisco cracked down on three companies — Bird, Lime, and Spin — that had been renting e-scooters to riders without any go-ahead from the city.
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The government has cracked down on corruption, which had flourished under the previous president, Goodluck Jonathan, an ineffectual buffoon who let politicians and their cronies fill their pockets with impunity.
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The issue was they needed to be able to comply with know your customer (KYC) requirements as regulators cracked down on the risk of cryptocurrency being used for money laundering.
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"If not, others would point out that ARSA was cracked down on because it's from a different religion and AA was not because it is an ethnic group," he said.
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The government has ousted or arrested officials whose loyalty to the current president, Abdulla Yameen, Mr. Gayoom's half brother, has been questioned, and it has cracked down on protest rallies.
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When the company cracked down on revenge porn and subreddits containing offensive content last summer, the backlash was swift and ultimately led to the ouster of interim CEO Ellen Pao.
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The government cracked down on unions after garment workers in Ashulia, a suburb outside Dhaka, protested the death of a coworker and demanded more wages in December 2016, campaigners said.
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Cracked down on bad practices by for-profit colleges In another education-centered issue, Obama has also worked tirelessly to crack down on foul play by bad for-profit colleges.
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The CFPB cracked down on many of those responsible for the financial crisis in which millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes and trillions of dollars in household wealth.
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In about 20 cities across the country in the past two months, democratic activists have staged huge demonstrations against the government, which has also cracked down on the news media.
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Red Ventures cracked down on the company's overall spending and slashed perks, replacing unlimited Seamless lunches every day with catered lunch four days per week, according to a current employee.
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He has cracked down on immigration, declared a war on drugs and spread the sense of a public safety emergency, even though crime in Italy has been dropping for years.
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Egypt has cracked down on Islamist groups since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led the 2013 military overthrow of Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Government officials cracked down on people sharing information about the virus, and experts have said that a freer flow of information about the virus could have helped slow its spread.
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Prince Mohammed has cracked down on rich tax dodgers, including fellow Saudi royals, raised sales taxes and cut energy subsidies as a way to pare back a large budget deficit.
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Although authorities in Wuhan initially cracked down on people accused of spreading "rumors" about the illness, the Chinese government has since taken rapid and strict measures to contain the virus.
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In power for 33 years, Hun Sen and his allies have cracked down on perceived critics, opposition politicians, independent media and human rights groups ahead of the July 29 vote.
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As Mr. Sisi cracked down on the Islamists — including a 2013 massacre of protesters that killed more than 800 people — the Obama administration and Congress reassessed Washington's alliance with Egypt.
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In regard to potential challenges; central banks, firms, and regulators have increasingly cracked down on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin amid concerns over price volatility and its threat to financial stability.
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Kelli Ford, a spokeswoman for Hawley's campaign, stood by the candidate's remarks when asked for comment, adding that he's aggressively cracked down on sex trafficking since taking office last year.
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European security officials have cracked down on suspected extremists at a dramatic rate since the violence in Paris and then Brussels, arresting multiple people believed to have links to ISIS.
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But as protests intensified — and as the government and police cracked down on the movement — the resistance morphed into something much larger: a fight to preserve democracy in Hong Kong.
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He quickly nationalized industries, seized farms and businesses, pushed through constitutional changes to enhance his power, and, as an emboldened and petty despot, cracked down on dissent of any kind.
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And he continued to flout tradition by trashing American institutions overseas, criticizing the press in the presence of leaders who have cracked down on the media in their own countries.
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Under its old CEO, Travis Kalanick, Uber cracked down on existing investors who tried to sell their ownership positions, which is not likely to be as rigid in the future.
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To prevent the growing influx of the drug, the US cracked down on the most popular cocaine route, the one that brought shipments from Colombia to Miami through the Caribbean.
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SEBI has cracked down on such agencies in the past few years, following a series of sudden downgrades and withdrawals of ratings and for failing to identify potential defaults in time.
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The company has indeed cracked down on questionable ad placements in the months since the first boycott, though some video creators have complained that its policies haven't been applied even-handedly.
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Both Moscow and Oslo have cracked down on the Arctic route, one that a few refugees found less risky than crossing the Mediterranean by boat, since last year's inflow of migrants.
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The choice points to a strategy to generate support in the southeast, where Buhari has polled badly in past elections and cracked down on secessionists by deploying troops on the streets.
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Egyptian authorities have cracked down on Islamist groups since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led the 2013 military overthrow of Egypt's first freely-elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Brotherhood, founded nearly 90 years ago in Egypt, and affiliated Islamist organizations have seen their fortunes decline as authoritarian governments across the Middle East have cracked down on their adherents.
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In early 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice cracked down on the site and filed criminal charges against Dotcom, as well as Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk.
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Even as Facebook has cracked down on anti-vaxxers and peddlers of snake oil cure-alls, a particularly grotesque form of fake cancer treatment has flourished in private groups on Facebook.
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Meanwhile, the formerly acquisitive HNA - a planes-to-banking Chinese conglomerate - has been working to improve finances since China cracked down on aggressive debt-fueled foreign dealmaking began in mid-2017.
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U.S. government debt yields rose Monday as U.S.-China relations remained chilled after Washington cracked down on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting.
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China has passed legislation forcing game makers to publish the probability of individual items appearing in loot boxes, while Japan has cracked down on certain forms of prize draws in games.
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One of the reasons the FDA initially cracked down on 23andMe was that it wanted to ensure there was enough accurate science to back up what the company was telling consumers.
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That was underlined when President Donald Trump last month threatened to levy tariffs on Mexico's exports unless its government cracked down on Central American migrants, which it quickly agreed to do.
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Two Venezuelan lawmakers sought refuge at foreign embassies in Caracas on Thursday, as the government of President Nicolas Maduro cracked down on Guaido's allies who supported his attempted uprising last week.
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Earlier this year the FDA finally cracked down on e-cigarette makers, barring them from selling their products to people under age 18 and requiring them to meet public health standards.
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While China has promised that Hong Kong will be ruled separately from the mainland, it's already cracked down on human rights activists in Hong Kong, showing it's keen on tightening control.
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" It said authorities in Xinjiang have cracked down on "violent terrorist activities," while convicted criminals are provided with skills to reintegrate themselves into society at "vocational education and employment training centers.
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During Twitter's earlier years, trending hashtag spam use to plague the platform, at least here in the U.S. "Twitter has really cracked down on English language bots spamming hashtags," Russell says.
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Last year, Iran cracked down on protests over poor living standards in over 80 cities and towns that posed the most serious challenge to its clerical leadership since the 2009 revolt.
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He's cracked down on Turkey's freedom of the press, violently dispersed anti-government demonstrations, and pushed constitutional changes that would consolidate dangerous amounts of power in the office of the presidency.
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Nicaraguan police forces have cracked down on a series of demonstrations in recent weeks, killing nearly 100 people and injuring hundreds more, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Meanwhile, bitcoin has seen its fair share of volatility and its future could be uncertain after regulators in China and South Korea have cracked down on cryptocurrency fundraising in recent months.
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Police blocked or cracked down on the rallies, some of which came ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, in which Vietnam's human rights record was a key issue.
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Tomorrow's Huaxia Life grabbed headlines last year as China's financial regulators cracked down on high-yield, short-term investment products like universal life insurance products, that are part insurance, part investment.
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Homeland Security agents have also cracked down on illegal immigration and so-called sanctuary cities, arresting nearly 500 undocumented immigrants in areas refusing to comply with Trump's deportation efforts last month.
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Since then, he has cracked down on police corruption, publicly incited vigilante violence, and, most significantly, launched a bloody anti-drug war that has claimed the lives of 8,000 and counting.
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After Mursi was ousted, Egypt cracked down on the Brotherhood, its oldest and most organized Islamist movement, throwing thousands of its supporters in jail and labeling the group a terrorist organization.
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As it turns out, Google also cracked down on loot boxes and marijuana apps, while also expanding sections detailing prohibitions around hate speech, sexual content and counterfeit goods, among other things.
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Netflix experienced a similar backlash when it cracked down on Canadians who were sneakily accessing American content, with many users threatening to ditch their subscriptions in favor of all out piracy.
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Barstool later morphed into a more general-audience sports brand, after US regulators cracked down on the online poker sites, limiting the advertising opportunities for a site focused solely on gambling.
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Poland and Hungary, once viewed as triumphs of democracy flowering in post-Soviet soil, have shackled the media, cracked down on public gatherings, and attacked the independence of their court systems.
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"People install satellite dishes to watch Russian or Turkish television channels or use VPNs to get around the censorship online, but the government has recently cracked down on these," says Tuhbatullin.
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In New York City, officials have cracked down on the price gouging and shops can now be fined up to $500 for trying to make an extra buck off the outbreak.
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This week, the government cracked down on retailers trying to profit from the shortage, as the country's leaders urged sellers not to take advantage of the situation and raise prices unreasonably.
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Mr. Trump has said he would give Mr. Xi more on a trade deal if China — North Korea's main trading partner and sole major ally — cracked down on its recalcitrant neighbor.
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Even before the ongoing trade dispute with Washington, the Chinese government was already managing a slowdown in its economy as Beijing cracked down on high debt levels and heavily polluting industries.
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Apple removed 43 vaping apps from its online store on Friday, following the lead of federal, state and local regulators, which in recent months have cracked down on e-cigarette products.
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China's soccer spending spree slowed last year, when Beijing cracked down on what it called "irrational investments" (including soccer clubs) and imposed an onerous 100-percent tax on international transfer fees.
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After paying a smuggling network $7,000 to get him to Australia, he was marooned en route, on the Indonesian island of Java, when Australia cracked down on boats bringing refugees there.
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Kaye added that while Iran has been blocking websites for many years, it has not previously cracked down on the use of VPNs, private networks that allow users to bypass bans.
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However, it appears people are getting wise to the problems surrounding former slave plantations as event spaces: Several major wedding media companies cracked down on featuring plantation weddings in late 2019.
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In recent years, the Kremlin has cracked down on companies that don't store citizens' data within its borders — in some cases actively blocking Western companies like LinkedIn for failing to comply.
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Outgoing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell banned coal mining on public lands, canceled leases for drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic coasts, expanded wildlife protection and cracked down on industry methane emissions.
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After one service member posted a Snapchat video of himself using drugs, the Air Force conducted an investigation and cracked down on the drug ring in 2016, according to the report.
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This week, the company has cracked down on white nationalist accounts and introduced a new filtering tool that allows people to mute certain words in an attempt to clamp down on harassment.
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" The Knight Foundation criticized Twitter for claiming it cracked down on automated and "spammy" accounts, and said that "so many easily identified abusive accounts is difficult to square with any effective crackdown.
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The details: The speech was accompanied by fresh sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba and pledge of action against Nicaragua — where President Daniel Ortega has ruthlessly cracked down on protesters demanding his ouster.
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As the number of protesters multiplied, state-led security forces cracked down on the civilians, firing tear gas during rallies, beating demonstrators in the streets, arresting them indiscriminately, and sometimes killing them.
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They heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays.
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If the government provided people with decent public services, taxed them fairly and cracked down on the corruption which keeps state spending from reaching them, lawlessness in the favelas would eventually fall.
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The update comes a few months after Twitter broadened its online abuse policy to encompass "abusive behavior and hateful conduct" and almost a year after after it cracked down on violent threats.
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The BNP says it would strike down the DSA if it wins, but it cracked down on media organizations seen as unfriendly when it was in power more than a decade ago.
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In the mid-19th century, the Taiping Rebellion began when Chinese officials cracked down on a millennarian sect led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus.
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Regulators in key cities such as Berlin, London, New York and even its hometown of San Francisco have cracked down on short-term rentals, blaming Airbnb for exacerbating already tight housing markets.
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But these rituals are also facing rising opposition from an increasingly vocal animal rights movement, while some local authorities have cracked down on the practice by withdrawing subsidies or introducing regional bans.
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The incident sparked much of the anger that exploded in the February riots: Many failed to understand why the police had done nothing for Lee, but cracked down on fish ball hawkers.
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India has cracked down on shady loans in its mammoth state banking sector after a more than $2 billion fraud was uncovered at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) earlier this year.
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The Trump administration has cracked down on the program and recently revised a series of H-1B guidelines aimed at entry-level software programmers and IT companies ahead of the application opening.
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At Addis Ababa University, where he taught part-time (he had also taken over several of his father's businesses), administrators cracked down on dissent, banning the student government and the school newspaper.
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Security forces dispersed demonstrations by force and cracked down on activists, leading to fears that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reverting to the strong-arm politics seen during Mugabe's 37-year rule.
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There has been little public evidence to substantiate the threat posed by Huawei, but the Trump administration has cracked down on the sale or use of the company's equipment on several fronts.
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It was the second trip in a week for the U.S. first lady to see children separated from their parents after her husband's administration cracked down on migrants at the southern border.
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China and South Korea have cracked down on ICOs, while the U.S. SEC has put the kibosh on some offerings and made clear that it won't stand for unregulated sales of securities.
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Abdel Fattah is one of many activists jailed since the military overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 and cracked down on his Muslim Brotherhood as well as secular pro-democracy activists.
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Image via A16Z But last month, Apple cracked down on unofficial tipping, which sidestepped its 30 percent tax on in-app purchases by highlighting how the tips were donations rather than purchases.
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The number of migrant crossings has since risen above 600,000, but the flows have slowed dramatically over the past two years as successive governments in Rome have cracked down on people smuggling.
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"The Chinese have cracked down on coal exports from North Korea so the smuggling route has developed and Russia is the transit point for coal," one of the European security sources said.
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British-born Westerman has also cracked down on staff who don't spend enough time with clients in the push to bring more business, promoting an underused system for logging visits and deals.
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The backdrop: The coalition government of Salvini's far-right League party and the Five-Star Movement, led by Luigi Di Maio, has cracked down on the number of migrants Italy will accept.
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As the military cracked down on the M.Q.M., the Taliban and the city's other militant factions in recent years, it was accused of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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That's because the Food and Drug Administration has cracked down on at-home collection kits over the last few days, causing Curative to cease offering these testing services for the time being.
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YouTube this week cracked down on the videos of some prominent far-right actors and conspiracy theorists, continuing an effort that has become more visible since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
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In recent months, the Chinese authorities have cracked down on investigative journalists, social media celebrities and seemingly innocuous independent bloggers, part of a broader effort to impose control over China's information ecosystem.
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Xi has steadily increased power, cracked down on dissent both within and outside of government, interned more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs in "reeducation" camps, and steadily encroached on Hong Kong's autonomy.
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During the 1990s, after President Bill Clinton's administration cracked down on illegal entries at the border near San Diego, migrants crossed the desert into Arizona instead, and the state's undocumented population swelled.
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The BNP says it would strike down the DSA if it wins, but it cracked down on media organizations seen as unfriendly when it was in power more than a decade ago.
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The country cracked down on migration in 2016 under pressure from the European Union, but experts say this increased the risk of exploitation for migrants by forcing them to move in secret.
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For example, the bureau retroactively changed an interpretation of a rule related to mortgage servicing and then cracked down on a company for breaching a rule the company could not know existed.
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In recent years, regulators have cracked down on Chinese wireless network equipment and expressed concerns about the national security implications of Chinese companies' operation of consumer mobile applications in the United States.
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With the help of former federal intelligence officials, the company has cracked down on parts stolen from its Asian contractors, and now it's putting its muzzle on employees at its California headquarters.
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This summer, the FDA has now cracked down on more than 70 websites illegally selling opioids, some of which aren't even the product they claim they are and are instead pressed fentanyl.
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The Poroshenko government not only co-opted the cause of the Ukrainian nationalists on Wednesday but also cracked down on them, with the police routing them from their encampments and dispersing them.
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Various alt-right groups have taken to using bitcoin after a slew of technology companies cracked down on online hate speech after the racially charged clashes in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this year.
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Lawyers for Mr. Erdogan, who sought a complete injunction on the poem and has cracked down on insults at home, previously said they, too, would pursue their case in further court hearings.
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Even if social platforms cracked down on violations of their user agreements, to solve the problem of online hate, they would also need to rethink their policies and take more substantive action.
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"Dangerous activities" refers to things like drinking Miracle Mineral Solution or using black salve to cure cancer, and also to promoting anti-vaxx content, which YouTube cracked down on earlier this year.
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Regulators eventually cracked down on the practice in late 2014, but not before Actavis capitalized on the financial flexibility to buy Forest Laboratories for $25 billion and subsequently orchestrate the Allergan merger.
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WARSAW — Step by step, the Polish government has moved against democratic norms: It increased government control over the news media, cracked down on public gatherings and restricted the activities of nongovernmental organizations.
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The country has also cracked down on activists suspected of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which it views as an existential threat, and it tightly monitors its own mosques and imams.
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In the days after the accident, according to people familiar with the tourism industry, scores of boats seemed to disappear as the authorities cracked down on those operating without the proper permits.
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Then President Donald Trump made his threat this past week of a 5% tariff on Mexican imports unless America's southern neighbor cracked down on Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.
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State Health Services found that 520 small Texas companies were not adequately licensed to manufacture and sell food; they cracked down on items excluding home baked goods and pickles of the cucumber variety .
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The Post has also run editorials that have been highly critical of institutions that cracked down on the free expression of political beliefs, which would seem to contradict their decision to fire Hubbuch.
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He is known as a ruthless leader who has violently cracked down on public protests and the press while presiding over a bleak economy with an unemployment rate of more than 80 percent.
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Xinhua said Henan province in central China took action against criminal gangs running illegal taxi and trucking services, while Shandong on the east coast cracked down on "village bosses" running rural mafia groups.
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Hun Sen has cracked down on the independent press and civil society over the past few months, dissolving the opposition party that Sam Rainsy once led and jailing the party's leader, Kem Sokha.
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A decade after that — after moving to Maine, becoming a nurse, and having two kids — the Drug Enforcement Administration cracked down on sketchy online pharmacies that sold pills, and True started on heroin.
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They also heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays.
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As Amazon has cracked down on the counterfeit problem by aggressively suspending abusers, many honest sellers have gotten kicked off as well, and Amazon has been unable to manage the deluge of complaints.
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The sharp year-on-year rise reflected the sustained pick-up in buying for lower priced foreign coal, used by utilities, over the past year after the government cracked down on domestic mining.
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Security forces have cracked down on rising protests against Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF in recent months as the public vents its anger at economic mismanagement, high unemployment and chronic cash shortages.
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Forced to flee his native Iran when the government cracked down on massive protests in 2009, the 33-year-old flew to Indonesia, where he bought passage to Australia with a people smuggler.
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As Maduro has cracked down on political opposition, the country's economy has also taken a nosedive, resulting in shortages of necessities such as food and medicine while many residents live in extreme poverty.
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After a nuclear test in 2013, the Security Council took about three weeks to agree a resolution that tightened financial restrictions and cracked down on Pyongyang's attempts to ship and receive banned cargo.
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Under his watch, the CFPB has cracked down on the tricks and traps of payday lenders, credit cards companies, debt collectors and bad actors in the industry from taking advantage of unsuspecting Americans.
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The growth has helped pull millions of Ethiopians out of poverty, but also led to violence, as industrialization has forced farmers from their land and the government has cracked down on political protests.
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They allowed the first music concerts in decades, cracked down on religious incitement and granted women a growing list of rights -- most notably the right to drive, which will take effect next year.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is known to use encrypted messaging applications like Telegram to communicate with potential followers, as Twitter has increasingly cracked down on accounts spreading terrorist propaganda.
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The federal government finally cracked down on a particularly egregious source of ocean plastic pollution, phasing out the plastic microbeads in beauty products designed to wash down our drains and into the ocean.
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More recently, he has grown increasingly autocratic and alienated many Turks as he cracked down on protests, took control of the media and renewed a war with Kurdish militants in the country's southeast.
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More recently, he has grown increasingly autocratic and alienated many Turks as he cracked down on protests, took control of the news media and renewed war with Kurdish militants in the country's southeast.
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"I know some people say that [Newsom's office favors big weed]... but he isn't doing so terrible" in comparison to other governors who have cracked down on THC products amid the vaping panic.
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Thailand cracked down on the trade after discovering a series of mass graves in 2015, leading to a crisis when smugglers abandoned their human cargo and left boats adrift in the Andaman Sea.
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After its third test, in 2013, the Security Council took about three weeks to agree a resolution that tightened financial restrictions and cracked down on its attempts to ship and receive banned cargo.
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At least 70 people were killed in those protests, and hundreds of civilians have been blinded by pellet guns as security forces cracked down on demonstrators in the aftermath of Mr. Wani's killing.
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Until recently, one dominant story line was that the epidemic in China spiraled out of control because the authorities cracked down on early whistle-blowers in late December, allowing the virus to spread.
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The government had cracked down on crowdfunding campaigns before, starting in 2015, when the Federal Trade Commission went after the creator of a board game called The Doom That Came to Atlantic City.
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A former environmental activist who cracked down on the Philippine mining industry as the country's acting environment secretary was forced from her job on Wednesday when Congress denied her confirmation to the post.
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One such rule, which had been due to come into force on October 15th, would have cracked down on low-income foreigners already in America who were seeking green cards or visa extensions.
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Turkey, whose president visited the White House this week, has cracked down on journalists since a failed coup attempt in July, throwing scores in jail in an aggressive effort to curb free speech.
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Several tech companies have cracked down on white supremacist groups in the wake of a rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a woman was killed by a car driven into a counter protest crowd.
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While the Nazi regime cracked down on the local and international press in 1933, The Associated Press was able to report in Germany until the United States entered the war in late 1941.
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Such public anger toward the government has become rare under Mr. Sisi, who has imprisoned thousands of opposition figures, cracked down on civil society and demonstrated little tolerance for the mildest street protests.
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But he asked investors to recall when Russian authorities cracked down on bourbon sales there in 2014, a moment of tension for Brown-Forman that turned out to be a great buying opportunity.
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Since the beginning of last year, Beijing has cracked down on leverage and risky market practices, with China's various regulators releasing a flurry of new rules in an attempt to rein in risks.
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One of China's fastest-rising carmakers, Geely has been on a global spending spree over the past few years, even as Chinese authorities have cracked down on capital outflows and "irrational" overseas deals.
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And Mr. Guaidó, after initially capturing domestic and international attention as a possible catalyst for change, has seen his power wane in recent months as Mr. Maduro has cracked down on the opposition.
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And Mr. Guaidó, after initially capturing domestic and international attention as a possible catalyst for change, has seen his power wane in recent months as Mr. Maduro has cracked down on the opposition.
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The People's Bank of China and the Public Security Ministry have cracked down on the use of offshore companies and underground transfers of capital this year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's overseas investment rose only marginally in 2018 as the yuan weakened and regulators cracked down on deals that were suspected to be skirting controls on moving money out of the country.
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The Twitter-like site, which has about 400 million active users, announced the clean-up campaign last Friday with new guidelines that cracked down on LGBTQ content, as well as violent and pornographic material.
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China has cracked down on foreign waste imports due to environmental concerns, upending the global recycling industry and leaving household waste in western countries such as Australia piling up or being sent to landfill.
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Police have also cracked down on the false reporting of clowns: Many of the reports nationwide have either been debunked or lacked evidence of a crime or the clown in question, beyond witness statements.
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Many dating apps already require connecting to Facebook — which, in recent years, has cracked down on fake accounts — to semi-verify someone's ID. But video may allow for an added layer of identity verification.
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Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, wrote that the takedowns are unconnected to each other and that the company cracked down on them based on their behavior, not the content that they posted.
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While Najib has been buffeted by allegations of graft and mismanagement at 1MDB, he has cracked down on dissenters within his party and outside, using a colonial-era Sedition Act and other security laws.
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Here in New York, where the city cracked down on short term rentals more than a hundred years ago, renting out your home for less than 30 days is illegal as of October 2016.
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Swatch Group net profit fell 11.3% in the first half of 2019 as the Swiss watch maker's sales fell as the company cracked down on unofficial sales and political turbulence in Hong Kong weighed.
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The country technically holds regular democratic elections, but there are plenty of questions about the legitimacy of those elections, and Russia has aggressively cracked down on journalists and other media critical of the government.
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The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) cracked down on Juul sales to minors in April, and the company was given a 60-day deadline last month to demonstrate how youth access might be reined in.
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The hard line camp is largely made up of loyalists of Rouhani's predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who during his two terms in office avidly stoked tensions with the U.S. and cracked down on internal dissidents.
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The latest: China has added WhatsApp to its list of blocked properties in the country and cracked down on apps within Apple's App Store in China that allow users to get around content filters.
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But as the epidemic grew, state and federal officials cracked down on excess prescriptions, leading addicts to turn to another opioid — heroin, which is cheaper on the streets than painkillers — to sustain their habit.
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The government of Delhi has cracked down on surge pricing from Uber and local ride-hailing company Ola, forcing the startups to suspend the feature across the Indian city of nearly 10 million people.
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After years of growth, Macau suddenly took a nosedive in 403 when the Chinese government cracked down on corruption, which brought a halt to soft briberies like Macau junkets, which were lucrative for casinos.
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After years of growth, Macau suddenly took a nosedive in 2014 when the Chinese government cracked down on corruption, which brought a halt to soft briberies like Macau junkets, which were lucrative for casinos.
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The United States government has also cracked down on one of the nation's largest for-profit educational chains, ITT Technical Institute, after a long period of scrutiny into its recruiting techniques and educational quality.
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Congress passed the Labor Management Relations Act of 299.9 (known colloquially as Taft-Hartley, after its Republican legislative sponsors), which cracked down on union organizing and shielded open-shop factory regimes from organizing drives.
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In 1956, as the Soviets cracked down on Hungary, Ligeti fled and settled in Cologne, Germany, at the invitation of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who had arranged a fellowship for him at an electronic-music studio.
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While mayor of Hazleton, Pa., I became known as the first mayor in the country to pass a local ordinance which cracked down on landlords and businesses that rented to or hired illegal immigrants.
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The message is similar in states close to and far from the border, places that rely on immigrants for jobs such as harvesting crops and those where legislatures have cracked down on illegal immigration.
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Campaigning turned violent last week when security forces cracked down on Tshisekedi and Fayulu's supporters, killing at least seven people and causing parallels to be drawn with the violence-plagued 2006 and 2011 elections.
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Mnangagwa was Mugabe's state security minister in the 1980s when a Korean-trained army brigade cracked down on the minority Ndebele, who supported the PF-ZAPU party of Mugabe's then-main rival Joshua Nkomo.
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The Nazi regime cracked down on local and international press with a restrictive law in 1933, but The A.P. was able to report in Germany until 1941, when the United States joined the war.
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It was the third bombing in Pakistan in this month alone, a reminder that even as the military has cracked down on extremists over the past two years, Islamist groups remain a potent threat.
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The OCC review of banks' account-opening practices began in 2016, shortly after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) cracked down on Wells Fargo for opening millions of accounts for customers without their consent.
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In moves that were widely seen as stamping out dissent last year, he sacked his critical deputy prime minister, replaced the former attorney-general with Apandi and cracked down on opposition leaders and academics.
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The next chapter is also set to play out not in Washington but in Europe, where regulators have already cracked down on privacy violations and are examining the role of data in online advertising.
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Militant attacks increased in Egypt after the military overthrew the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013, and cracked down on his supporters and dissidents of all stripes.
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In 2011, the US suspended aid to Bahrain after it cracked down on protests and dissidents, and still won't provide aid to its Interior Ministry, which handles domestic security, due to human rights concerns.
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The Justice Department has also cracked down on FARA violations, most prominently the convictions of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, for his work consulting for the pro-Russia former president of Ukraine.
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The rising price has attracted many new users, from places like Japan and South Korea and from big hedge funds, even as the authorities in places like China have cracked down on the currency.
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David Wood, a former director general of British immigration enforcement, said the criminal groups behind the smuggling had turned to alternative routes as the authorities cracked down on smuggling by truck and shipping container.
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Even as he cracked down on the Brotherhood, M.B.Z. was working on a far more ambitious project: building a state that would show up the entire Islamist movement by succeeding where it had failed.
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In fact, Deng Xiaoping, considered to be China's great modern reformer and the man who cracked down on the dissidents in 1989, was an admirer of the Singaporean way of combining capitalism with autocracy.
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The government has cracked down on underground churches, both Protestant and Catholic, and has rolled out legislation to increase oversight of religious education and practices, with harsher punishment for practices not sanctioned by authorities.
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Spin is one of four e-scooter companies authorized to operate in San Francisco, after the city cracked down on the thousands of rental scooters littering the early-adopter-packed streets earlier this year.
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In the past few years, the country's municipal authorities have cracked down on the unregulated street markets in the busy metropolises of Shanghai and Beijing, which has purged countless carts from their usual corners.
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The FDA has not yet cracked down on them, and patients who believe the treatments can cure or mitigate the effects of disorders like cerebral palsy are lobbying the FDA to approve the treatments.
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Chinese rebar steel and raw materials like coal and iron ore pulled back from this month's multi-year highs after exchanges in Shanghai, Dalian and Zhengzhou cracked down on speculative trading by raising transaction charges.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The northeastern Chinese province of Jilin has cracked down on underground banks that funneled 45 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) worth of transactions, including one that serviced South Korean and Japanese workers, Xinhua reported.
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Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, as the government has cracked down on Islamist groups seeking to turn the South Asian nation of 160 million people into a sharia-based state.
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Unwrought copper imports have been supported by demand from scrap consumers seeking other forms of the metal after China cracked down on scrap copper imports as part of a campaign to clean up the environment.
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Why it matters: Tariffs have taken a toll on the Chinese economy, but there were signs of a slowdown before the U.S.-China trade war began, as the government cracked down on high debt levels.
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Dozens of these even took part in the Iraqi central bank's currency auctions in 2014 and 2015, allowing the group to convert Iraqi dinars into dollars, before the government at last cracked down on them.
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Related: Islamic State's Income Has Dropped 'by a Third' While giving his son free reign to oversee economic reforms, King Salman has cracked down on internal dissent since ascending to the throne in January 2015.
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Life one week after Turkey coup Turkey has cracked down on agencies and individuals suspected of having ties to cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for masterminding the July 23 attempted coup.
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Mr Xi has also cracked down on anything that might remotely challenge the party's monopoly of power, arresting human-rights lawyers by the score and passing a new law to make life harder for charities.
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Contributing to Twitter's monthly user count woes, the company has cracked down on bots and purged hundreds of fake accounts from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela that were believed to be targeting the 2018 midterm elections.
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Roures said the deal still had to be authorized by the Chinese government, which has cracked down on overseas football investments in recent months, though he hoped the operation could be closed in early 2018.
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In the past, for example, the Bush administration — and the Obama administration during its early years — cracked down on medical marijuana by raiding and shutting down pot dispensaries that were legal at the state level.
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China has also cracked down on VPNs (software that keeps online activity private and secure), forcing Apple to remove a number of them from its App Store in China, as well as certain cryptocurrency activities.
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A decade ago, officials cracked down on what they said was infiltration of Islamists at Charles de Gaulle and Orly, the second Paris airport, closing down some 15 clandestine prayer rooms at the two airports.
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The very fact that the protests have been so visible and that the Chinese government hasn't cracked down on them is likely a deliberate decision to allow the world to witness evidence of its sanctions.
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The local government cracked down on the practice of subdividing and selling in order to preserve communally-held land where herders could bring their animals to graze, instead of encroaching on private property, he said.
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Among the many other winners were Karen Dodge and Margaret Moeser at the Department of Homeland Security, who cracked down on fraudsters who used Western Union to illegally obtain hundreds of millions from unsuspecting victims.
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China, as a large producer of synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon, is already dealing with problems of its own as the country has cracked down on pollution emitters, which include makers of synthetic fabrics.
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Once in office, of course, he pushed tariffs, hired war hawks like John Bolton, and cracked down on immigration, joining a long list of Republican presidents who have betrayed the libertarian wing of the GOP.
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Facebook recently has cracked down on data violations following the disclosures about Russian efforts to spread misinformation on the platform during the 2016 election and the harvesting of user data by consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
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Read more: Trump congratulated China's dictators while police brutally cracked down on pro-democracy activists in Hong KongThe appmaker speculated that the rejection was the result of a "bureaucratic f up" rather than deliberate censorship.
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There have been daily clashes between police and supporters of the cricketer-turned-politician in the lead-up to Wednesday, while the government has cracked down on workers of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
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Spain's worst political crisis since its transition to democracy four decades ago erupted in October, when Madrid cracked down on an independence referendum it had declared illegal and took control of the wealthy northeastern region.
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A secessionist movement turned violent in 2017 after the government cracked down on peaceful protests by teachers and lawyers in the English-speaking northwest and southwest, which complain of being marginalized by the Francophone majority.
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Finally, the Trump administration has cracked down on Chinese Communist Party-funded programs, known as Confucius Institutes, that offer language and culture classes on more than 100 college and university campuses in the United States.
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Speaking after the watchdog cracked down on the transfer of user data between the apps, Andreas Mundt said such a step would "intensify" the very practices that it is seeking to prevent through its ruling.
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In the wake of these changes, Twitter has cracked down on groups affiliated with Nazis and white supremacists, and has threatened to ban those who are affiliated with "hate groups" on and off the service.
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Amazon has cracked down on certain titles before, including books by Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, books that claimed they contained cures for autism, and, more recently, books that contained misinformation about the coronavirus.
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The police major general who headed the rape investigation, Surachate Hakparn, said in an interview with The Times that the police have cracked down on crime syndicates on Koh Tao since the backpackers' double killing.
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Huawei is coming off of what was already a tough 2019, during which time the Trump administration waged legal battles against the company and cracked down on its ability to operate in the United States.
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