clamp down

How To Use clamp down In A Sentence

• The courts need to clamp down harder. The Sun
• The weekend's traffic effort from the Gardai was part of a national push to clamp down on dangerous and drunken driving.
• Banking regulators failed to clamp down until earlier this month.
• Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
• As such, the broker thinks there is a risk that the Government may clamp down on profits. Times, Sunday Times
• The only place the councils should be getting involved here is with the existing Trading Standards officers that they control to clamp down on garages who pass these vehicles on their annual test.
• The Department of Justice announced plans last week to clamp down on the compo culture and a spokesperson confirmed these recommendations will be studied with a view to adopting them.
• Stop "the bezzle" and punish the fraudsters across the board and clamp down on all manner of fraud in the future with enforcement of the law being the primary driver of policy. Undefined
• Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. Saints, censors and satire
• They clamp down retailers who engage in sale-price bait-and-switch, and a wide variety of issues of electronic fraud.