How To Use Clamp down In A Sentence
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The courts need to clamp down harder.
The Sun
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The weekend's traffic effort from the Gardai was part of a national push to clamp down on dangerous and drunken driving.
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Banking regulators failed to clamp down until earlier this month.
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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.
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As such, the broker thinks there is a risk that the Government may clamp down on profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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They clamp down retailers who engage in sale-price bait-and-switch, and a wide variety of issues of electronic fraud.
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The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
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I am disappointed because it was an opportunity to clamp down on the destruction of the existing community by infill development.
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How do you clamp down on messy street protests without violating fundamental laws that guarantee freedom of assembly and prohibit political interference with policing?
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The development, which follows a long-running campaign backed by the Guardian to clamp down on tax evasion, is expected to raise £1bn in extra revenues.
Treasury to get £1bn windfall in Swiss deal over secret bank accounts
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The local Council is trying to clamp down on people who discard litter around towns and in the countryside.
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The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
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Many of these borrowers were given loans that they could not realistically afford, which led to the recent clamp down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bill is designed to clamp down on illegal file-sharing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earlier this year, the Czech government renationalised Explosia, the company that manufactures the explosive, after coming under pressure from Nato to clamp down on illegal sales of Semtex.
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They were discovered during dawn raids yesterday to clamp down on rogue landlords.
The Sun
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The clamp down became more brutal: opposition activists were attacked by hit squads and six key opposition leaders were rounded up.
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The widespread concerns have prompted the Government to clamp down on spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, many masters were reluctant to clamp down because in fact they themselves sometimes employed ‘rented’ labor alongside their journeymen and apprentices.
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A multi-agency team, which included the police and Vehicle Inspectorate, stopped drivers at Granada Service station as part of a national clamp down on poorly maintained heavy goods vehicles.
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Adding to the fascination is the fact that the incident was used to clamp down on 1950s horror comics.
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The children's secretary published guidance earlier this month designed to clamp down on homophobic bullying.
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If such mass protests seem to be in the works, will the mainland Chinese government have to step in to clamp down, including dispersing the crowds with riot police?
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He is similarly unimpressed with measures to clamp down on using trusts for inheritance tax planning purposes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police are going to clamp down on illegal stock exchange activities in the streets.
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The Chancellor will also clamp down on millionaire tax dodgers by sealing lucrative stamp duty loopholes.
The Sun
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The commitment of marriage often gives an insecure man license to clamp down in control.
Christianity Today
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The local council has pledged to clamp down on litter louts on the beach.
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The sky-high price is demanded on internet sites despite a pledge to clamp down on touts.
The Sun
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Recently, decrees were issued to clamp down on terrorism.
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A massive security clamp down aimed at restoring order resulted in major bloodshed, particularly in the capital, Baku.
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The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.
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The police are going to clamp down on illegal stock exchange activities in the streets.
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The government intends to clamp down on drug smuggling.
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This operation is an excellent example of how we are working with other agencies to clamp down on the selling of illegal goods.
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The local council has pledged to clamp down on litter louts on the beach.
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But they are still picking the brains of their Scottish counterparts Critics to try to clamp down on it.
The Sun
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Manufacturers, pubs and bars are eager to head off what one industry insider said could become ‘some ham-fisted attempt to clamp down’.
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He was arrested in December after a clamp down on illegal traders by the multi-agency liaison team, made up of police, trading standards, immigration service and housing benefit fraud team officers.
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This clever wheeze encapsulated both the best of Brown and the worst: it commanded the moral and political high ground in being seen to clamp down on non-declaration of income.
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The U.S. Treasury prepares to clamp down further on tax inversions.
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The local council has pledged to clamp down on litter louts on the beach.
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Some of its past efforts to clamp down on street prostitution have had bizarre consequences.
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But the more votes it receives, the more the possibility of the emergence of an alternative government that will clamp down on corruption and nepotism.
Times, Sunday Times
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As such, the broker thinks there is a risk that the Government may clamp down on profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police seized 20,945 litres of alcoholic drinks 44,265 pints from underage drinkers during a February half term clamp down on public drinking, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker announced today.
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The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.
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The Government intends to clamp down on soccer hooliganism.
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If a clamp down is to be made on beach sellers, these animal abusers should be the first in line.
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The commitment of marriage often gives an insecure man license to clamp down in control.
Christianity Today
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Recent moratorium on development of big-box gaming resorts in US due to economic downturn evolves into a long-term clamp down.
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The courts need to clamp down harder.
The Sun
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This next phase would build on existing measures to clamp down on the grey economy and close the loopholes allowing for tax evasion.
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But they are still picking the brains of their Scottish counterparts Critics to try to clamp down on it.
The Sun
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He is similarly unimpressed with measures to clamp down on using trusts for inheritance tax planning purposes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He even has a pop at the police for failing to clamp down on the hangers-on who follow parades.
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The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
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When May took over, she said she would clamp down on special advisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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A tough new regime across West Yorkshire will clamp down this month on non-payers of court penalties and on-the-spot fines, including speeding tickets.
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But the more votes it receives, the more the possibility of the emergence of an alternative government that will clamp down on corruption and nepotism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The widespread concerns have prompted the Government to clamp down on spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last week, Scotland on Sunday revealed that ministers wanted to tag children as young as 10 in an effort to clamp down on tearaways.
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It is the first concerted attempt to clamp down on free speech in social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were discovered during dawn raids yesterday to clamp down on rogue landlords.
The Sun
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Brigadier General Murdah Dulaimy told Iraqi TV that his men were sent to Anbar province to keep order and will clamp down according to the army's security plan.
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Campaigning youngsters are demanding more leisure activities and increased police patrols in the borough to clamp down on rowdy youths.
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They include a medication called pseudoephedrine, which helps runny noses by causing blood vessels to clamp down and allow less fluid to leak into the lining of nose, throat and sinuses.
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The new government promised to clamp down on welfare scroungers.
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It was the first time the authorities had confiscated vessels in their battle to clamp down on illegal fishing.
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When May took over, she said she would clamp down on special advisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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"I just hope that in our effort to clean up some of the worst practices we don't completely overreact and try and clamp down on perfectly normal and applaudable reporting," he said today.
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Last month, the RBI placed limits on the unhedged currency positions that banks can hold overnight, and banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forwards contracts to clamp down on what it called speculative behavior.
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Bradford Council's anti-social behaviour team is paying for two off-road bikes to help police clamp down on offenders in Bradford.
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The move is being proposed in order to clamp down on bootleg whisky, which Brown claims costs the taxpayer £600m a year in lost tax revenue.
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Asri Zainul Abidin has cultivated strong support among young people in the Muslim-majority country for criticizing what he called overzealous efforts by Islamic officials to clamp down on immoral behavior.
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When May took over, she said she would clamp down on special advisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an attempt to clamp down on age falsification, the organizers said they would demand that team officials submit authentic birth documents of their athletes.
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A helicopter is commissioned to carry a race judge, solely to clamp down on backmarkers taking tows from cars in the convoy during the mountain stages.
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By '90, adherents numbered in the thousands, and a distrustful government began to clamp down, leveling accusations of tribalism against the movement and then banishing it.
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The Chancellor will also clamp down on millionaire tax dodgers by sealing lucrative stamp duty loopholes.
The Sun
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In an effort to clamp down on the production of such copies, Linchtenberg hired a private investigator to hang around furniture markets in the city and other areas to spot copycats.
