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crack down

verb

  1. to take severe measures (against); become stricter (with)

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noun

  1. severe or repressive measures

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Act more forcefully to regulate, repress, or restrain. For example, The police cracked down on speeding. [1930s]
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He vowed especially to crack down on sanctuary cities across the country to supposedly “reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia.”

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They are cracking down, arresting, torturing and killing national aid workers and human rights activists.

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“It’s the type of crime that preys upon the most needy and desperate people,” Lopez said, adding that few places outside of Colorado have taken meaningful steps to crack down on immigration-related abuses.

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The Nigerian government responded by brutally cracking down on the protesters.

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They say the president is testing the bounds of his authority and wants protests to spiral so that he can crack down further by invoking the Insurrection Act to establish martial law.

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