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President Bashar al-Assad’s regime cracked down violently on the protesters, leading some military units to revolt.
On March 18th five years ago, Castro’s government cracked down on the Varela Project and other civil society initiatives rather than risk allowing a spark of democratic reform to spread across Cuba as it had in the former Soviet bloc.
The patience of Japan’s middle-class, rocked by economic crisis, finally cracked.
As Israel’s defense minister from 1984 to 1990, he imposed harsh measures on Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories and cracked down on violent protest.
So he had cracked down, introducing laws criminalizing what he called “insults” to the government and fining and imprisoning journalists for inaccuracies.
India, for example, has largely cracked the identification problem with its Aadhaar program, which dramatically simplifies the process through which networks can know their customers.
Within the next two years, the Soviet Union, cracked open by Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, finally imploded.
After the Polish government cracked down and declared martial law in December 1981, he found himself in prison once again.
So, they cracked down on dissent, repressed civil society, pursued a policy toward Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang that amounts to genocide under the United Nations definition, and took aim at all those elements of liberal democracy they regard as incompatible with CPC rule.
Xi toughened the party’s grip on civil society and universities, and cracked down on any sign of dissident activity.
Because Makonnen cracked the “export code,” her company has scaled up production, tripled its staff, and vastly expanded its media profile.
In India, police have arrested protesters under sedition and anti-terrorism laws, while officials in Hong Kong have cracked down on protests by deploying public-order laws (ostensibly to prevent the spread of COVID-19).
The US government has cracked down on the Chinese giant Huawei because of fears that the company’s links to the Chinese government make its telecoms equipment a security threat.
All of a sudden the palazzo became so obviously old and dirty, so disagreeably familiar were the stains on the curtains, the cracks in the floor, the cracked stuccoes of the cornices, and so wearisome became Golenishchev, the Italian professor, and the German traveller, who were also always the same, that a change was necessary.
'Mais pardon, il est un petit peu toque!'[But, excuse me, he is a little cracked.]
[A hard-boiled egg that has been repeatedly cracked till it has become soft and useless for the game.]
She sweated, panted, her joints cracked, but without a complaint, with the indifference of custom, as if it were the common wretchedness of all to live thus bent double.
The dancing still went on, and the end of a quadrille drowned the ball-room in red dust; the walls cracked, a cornet produced shrill whistling sounds like a locomotive in distress; and when the dancers stopped they were smoking like horses.
One morning, near Piolaine, the ground was found cracked above the north gallery of Mirou which had fallen in the day before; and on the following day the ground subsided within the Voreux, shaking a corner of a suburb to such an extent that two houses nearly disappeared.
The piles of coal increased, and the burning heat cracked the ceiling of the vast hall.
Lydie had awkwardly cracked the head of a woman in the crowd, and the two boys were loudly laughing.
A fissure ascended as far as Rasseneur's bar, and his front wall had cracked.
"I'd rather he cracked my shoulder!"
"The Nautilus suffered a collision that cracked one of the engine levers, and it struck this man.
So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved-in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.
Equipped with picks, some ten men climbed onto the Nautilus's sides and cracked loose the ice around the ship's lower plating, which was soon set free.
The ice cracked with an odd ripping sound, like paper tearing, and the Nautilus began settling downward.
She listened with dull attention to each stroke of the cracked bell.
Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
The wind blew through the cracked windows.
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