| The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. |
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| The tax was designed to crack down on people who were avoiding tax and National Insurance payments by operating through a personal company. |
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| Police now have more powers than ever to crack down on boozy rowdy behaviour. |
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| Salford council has made a U-turn over plans to crack down on grave ornaments. |
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| A village school is looking to employ private security guards in a bid to crack down on vandalism. |
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| Home Secretary David Blunkett is currently piloting through measures to crack down on noisy neighbours and loutish youths. |
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| Takeaway patrols to crack down on violence outside night-time eateries have been welcomed by councillors. |
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| I wouldn't object to the cameras so much if there was a police presence to crack down on other motoring offences. |
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| The government will also continue to crack down on coal mines in particular because many fail to conform with safety standards. |
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| It is true that in recent years the police have made real efforts to crack down on institutional racism. |
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| Many residents, say group members, pleaded with the cops to crack down on the drug dealers long before the recent shootings. |
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| The Executive has introduced measures through the police bill to crack down on knife culture. |
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| An Executive source said this was typical of the chaos it hoped the new commissioner would crack down on. |
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| In a bid to crack down on nuisance youths and anti-social behaviour, often fuelled by alcohol, police have forged ahead with the plan. |
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| They will move to a new, central squad, which is being formed specifically to crack down on street crime. |
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| World Cup referees yesterday vowed to crack down on players who orchestrate and feign fouls to get opponents in trouble. |
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| One of the first things on his agenda was to issue orders to crack down on crooked police officers and drug related crimes. |
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| European lawmakers are being urged to crack down on the luxury cruise liners that threaten marine life by pumping pollutants into the open ocean. |
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| It is only with the help of local people that police can crack down on the crime spree, catch the culprits and bring them to justice. |
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| Frustratingly, this often leaves law enforcement authorities with their hands tied, unable to crack down on offenses in their own jurisdiction. |
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| Police in Bolton are to crack down on this kind of behaviour, and more power to their elbow. |
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| The traffic police have been given instructions to crack down on erring motorists. |
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| Join with allies and lead the world to crack down on nuclear proliferation. |
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| Surely we have to crack down on corruption and abuse, and eliminate idiocies like the direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers. |
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| Tighter controls are being enforced at a York school in an effort to crack down on truancy and lateness. |
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| To crack down on abuse, the House and Senate are pushing for tax shelter legislation. |
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| Ticket scalpers have prevailed despite the pledge made by the authorities to crack down on them. |
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| Police in Bolton are to crack down on kerb-crawling following the murder of two prostitutes in the town. |
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| Beijing has pushed the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to crack down on Uighur activists. |
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| The commission is attempting to crack down on fiscal sloppiness, which it argues undermines confidence in the euro. |
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| Do we have congressional support of an appropriations bill to crack down on illegal cockfighting and dogfighting. |
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| Both of them believe that society's ills can be fixed by putting the right man at the top to make laws and crack down on the wrong people. |
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| The Health authorities should crack down on hotels, teashops and other eateries and ensure hygiene in such places. |
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| The Public Security Bureau will crack down on anyone who refuses to be quarantined or undergo medical observation. |
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| Police and district councils have joined forces to crack down on irresponsible raves which can put people at risk and cause misery to neighbours. |
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| He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs. |
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| They urged police to crack down on racist yobs before youths took the law into their own hands. |
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| The streets of south Essex could be rid of hundreds of firearms in a month-long amnesty to crack down on gun crime. |
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| And the music industry is about to crack down on the biggest file-sharing ringleaders. |
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| Already, comments from John Henry about profanity on the site have prompted moderators to crack down on the salty language. |
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| The generals in turn used the opportunity to crack down on more militant opponents and stabilise the political situation. |
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| Police are encouraging residents to join their e-mail information line in a bid to crack down on criminals. |
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| Ministers plan to outlaw happy hours in a bid to crack down on binge drinking. |
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| Court officials will be handed sweeping powers to enter homes in a bid to crack down on fine-dodgers. |
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| Shopkeepers are to be taught the moral and legal responsibilities of selling alcohol in a bid to crack down on under-age drinking. |
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| Residents in Barnoldswick are being urged to shop thieves to the police in a bid to crack down on sneak-in burglaries in the area. |
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| Extra police patrols will also be brought in to crack down on anyone who goes over the top while playing trick or treat. |
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| The authority was continuing to crack down on troublemakers and was making streets cleaner. |
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| Labour has taken tough measures to crack down on crime and anti-social behaviour. |
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| Sydney police have promised to crack down on all such surreptitious snapping. |
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| Police are using a spy van and off-road bikes to crack down on crime on the railways. |
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| In a belated move, the education authorities decided to crack down on teaching practices that are harming the neutrality of education. |
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| The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying. |
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| Critics say a common theme has been the failure to exercise a duty of care for its young charges and a failure to crack down on bullying. |
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| It is true that in recent years the police in York have made real efforts to crack down on institutional racism. |
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| Southend police have vowed to crack down on late-night drinking in clubs and pubs in the wake of the two men being stabbed in a vicious knife fight. |
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| Passing the Tackling Auto Theft and Property Crime bill to crack down on auto theft and trafficking of property that is obtained by crime. |
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| Japanese law enforcement uses all the laws available to crack down on the yakuza. |
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| It follows an escalation of vandalism and loutishness in both resorts over recent months and a determination by town councillors to crack down on the anti-social behaviour. |
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| Drunken louts should be quaking in their bovver boots next month when a special booze patrol is launched in Wimbledon to crack down on their alcohol-fuelled bad behaviour. |
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| Authorities started to crack down on similar corpse markets and rescued abducted victims after the report. |
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| The campaign is aimed to crack down on those who run blockades by sea or hide in containers, and those foreign stowaways who use China as a transfer point. |
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| The Chennai Corporation has already asked its Assistant Health Officers and Sanitary Inspectors to crack down on smokers and spitters in public places. |
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| By all means crack down on illegal tax evasion and money laundering. |
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| Described as a blueprint to crack down on the trade in fake goods, the scheme involves closer inter-agency co-operation in the fight against pirates and bootleggers. |
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| A Youtube video of some jet-setting Buddhist monks has Thailand scrambling to crack down on materialism in the monastic ranks. |
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| If the police crack down on the prostitutes who walk the streets, and the curb-crawlers who provide them their trade, they will be forced off of the streets. |
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| But once NATO leaves next year, the Taliban will surely crack down on women like her, writes Janine di Giovanni. |
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| The government has moved to crack down on independent-minded judges, human rights groups and the media and has been accused of packing the courts with sympathetic judges. |
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| Last year closed circuit television cameras were used to crack down on the vandalism and drunken behaviour which has plagued the recreation ground. |
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| The government says the demolitions are necessary to remove eyesores and to crack down on illegal trading and black market currency exchanges based in the slums. |
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| The goal of the audits, to extend into next year, is to flush out the bad loans, get them properly classified and provisioned, then start to crack down on chronic deadbeats. |
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| The Secret Service was formed in 1865 to crack down on counterfeit currency. |
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| People who see themselves as do-gooders would try to crack down on people running family farms and other operations. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the government has announced that it will crack down on gas stations that are overcharging customers because of inaccurate pumps. |
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| We need to crack down on this widespread fraud and tackle those who seek to cheapen Canadian citizenship. |
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| Most people say they want to crack down on social promotion. |
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| I am proud to say that yesterday this government tabled legislation that will crack down on white collar crime. |
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| We must crack down on banks and professionals, encouraging them to report clients under suspicion to the authorities. |
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| In California, one state assemblyman has offered a bold new proposal to crack down on the flood of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican-California border. |
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| Neither does the failure of African countries to crack down on the callous people smugglers who crisscross the continent with apparent impunity. |
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| Spooked by Ed Miliband's offer of a freeze, the Tories suggest that they want to crack down on the very green taxes that they voted for. |
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| The government has repeatedly vowed to do more to crack down on safety violations, but explosions, floods, gas leaks, cave-ins and other disasters are reported every week. |
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| The court said that although the government's effort to crack down on the evasion of active duty is supportable, the four defendants cannot be punished under the current law. |
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| Now we must crack down on other problems linked to drug trafficking, such as the sale of heavy weapons, which can be found in our big cities. |
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| We need to crack down on them, ban them, punish them and throw them in jail. |
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| This Government is taking the necessary steps to crack down on crime and to ensure the safety and security of our neighbourhoods and communities. |
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| What steps will be taken by the Commission to urge governments of Member States to crack down on such practices where they occur? |
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| It will require telemarketers to transmit Caller-ID information, and help to crack down on unauthorized billing by telemarketers. |
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| Major League Baseball actually does not penalize usage in the bigs, but does crack down on minor leaguers. |
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| The offences under a new Norwegian law had been designed to crack down on returning militants. |
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| To effectively combat wildlife-related crimes, China set up a forest police force in the 1980s and a special police unit to crack down on smuggling of wildlife species. |
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| Canadians have told us they want us to crack down on violent crime. |
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| This is a powerful weapon because it implies that the state will later on use its coercive force to crack down on the dissenters who do not share its view of rights. |
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| Omar Mohammed Lotah, Executive Director of APTC said his organisation is authorised body to crack down on illegal transportation. |
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| The democratic countries have fully understood this and spectacular developments are occurring in international law, especially with the crack down on serious infringements of international human rights law. |
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| Global standards on the marking and tracing of small arms are essential if we are to understand, track and crack down on the illegal trade in those weapons. |
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| Project E-Printer: The South Fraser Integrated CIS probe team worked closely with the Integrated Border Enforcement Team to crack down on a cross-border drug courier ring. |
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| The central government has tried to crack down on the most lavish handouts, such as the gold ninja throwing-knives worth ¥400,000 that one city was offering in honour of its ninja spies. |
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| I am proud to say that despite the Liberals' foot-dragging, our legislation to crack down on identity theft was finally passed in the House and will soon become the law of this land. |
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| Timoshenko is jittery realizing the oligarchs will finally crack down on the odious leaders of ochlocracy and she is the prime target. |
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| Russia is planning to crack down on school teachers who dress sexily and also introduce a moral code for them. |
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| The Sherman Act, for instance, did not crack down on bigness per se, and in fact often was used to prevent collusion among small businesses as well as big ones. |
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| In his speech to the Fabian Society, Balls said Labour would crack down on tax avoiders, balance the nation's finances and cut debts. |
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| Could the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Board President tell us what the government is doing to provide against and crack down on these illegal donations? |
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| The Tokyo metropolitan assembly approved an ordinance Wednesday to crack down on rip-offs by entertainment businesses in four districts of Tokyo. |
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| He said that he planned to reduce spending in ministries, crack down on welfare abuse, and take away unemployment benefits from jobless people who refuse to work or retrain. |
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| Everybody wants to crack down on terrorists. |
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| And it is determined to crack down on the welter of arbitrary fees and taxes imposed by local party bosses on farmers and on people living in small towns. |
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| One day after Pakistan's prime minister vowed to crack down on terrorism, a court has granted bail to the man accused of masterminding the deadly 2008 assault on Mumbai. |
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| If nothing else, Bharara knows how to crack down on insider trading. |
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| The authorities are trying to crack down on drunk driving during the holidays. |
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| Every year around the holidays, the police launch a campaign to crack down on drunk driving. |
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| The Internal Revenue Service and the United States Department of Justice have recently teamed up to crack down on abusive tax shelters. |
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| In the past ornery MPs had fewer opportunities to vent, and party enforcers could crack down on those who voiced unorthodox thoughts in broadcast or print interviews. |
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| Will the Hollywood crowd allow them to crack down on obscenity? |
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| But it also has created an opportunity for sham recyclers as well and an excuse for new equipment manufacturers to crack down on refurbishing competition. |
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| The resident and traders demanded of the administration to increase police patrolling besides conducing crack down on the robbers and anti social elements. |
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| Cabral presents the complaint to the Zamorin, and requests that he crack down on the Arab merchant guild or enforce Portuguese priority in the spice markets. |
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