The police cracked down on young people and took hundreds into custody.

But no sooner had they started demonstrating than the police cracked down on those protesters and arrested them.

But, after a brief period of reform under Prime Minister Ali Amini, the regime cracked down on dissent.

The Chinese government barred all foreign journalists from Tibet when it cracked down hard on protesters before the 2008 Olympics.

Israeli forces have cracked down on protests in Nabi Saleh and elsewhere throughout the West Bank, at times arresting demonstrators.

Some of these events are cracked down upon by the police but for the most part it goes on and people whisper, she notes.

When Erdoğan s government eventually lost the support of liberals who had initially supported it, it cracked down on the media and freedom of expression.

The then Communist government cracked down on protesters, leaving at least one person dead, while numerous allegations of widespread torture further traumatized and divided Moldovan society.

The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world s vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.

More than 80 civilians and 6 soldiers were killed, and more than 2,100 injured by the time the military successfully cracked down on the protesters on 19 May.

Is Central Bank Independence All It s Cracked up to Be?

Then We cracked the earth open under pressure ( of germination )

Then We cracked the earth open under pressure ( of germination )

So you translate that to the building industry, if we have a wall of windowpanes and one pane is cracked, we go, Oh, dear. That's cracked. Let's repair it.

The patience of Japan s middle class, rocked by economic crisis, finally cracked.

He s cracked jokes about rape and is open about being a womanizer.

Only one part of a stage can be cracked at a time, however.

State security cracked down on the march, abducted the activists as well as the foreign reporters, taking them on a ride around Cairo then leaving them, either in the desert or at the police stations.

In October 2003, Putin cracked down on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the CEO and main owner of Yukos oil, Russia s most valuable company, who was thrown into prison on dubious charges of tax fraud after backing Putin s political opponents.

Our Jordanian blogsphere is polluted with cracked, uneducated, totally rude, unpatriotic, anti freedom ignorant Jordan haters.

Sadanand Dhume ( dhume), columnist of WSJ cracked a joke on father of the nation Jinnah s ideology.

you're not really confident standing up there saying, I've got it cracked it's the lentils, are you?

Romney let it grow, then delivered the punch line And to heal the planet. The crowd cracked up.

And those where confidence in the government s liabilities has cracked, forcing the government into austerity, are doing worst.

It cracked the yoke of conservatism and totalitarian thought, enabling the desire for personal and collective autonomy and freedom to express itself.

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

In 2002, the Greek Police cracked 64 criminal networks of pandering and human trade, in which 184 victims of human trafficking were involved.

In March 2009, the IRGC cracked down on several groups who had set up anti Islamic and pornographic Internet websites. Around the same time, the organized crime fighting unit of the IRGC launched a website named Gerdab (meaning 'vortex') where news and photos of arrested people were published.

The mudding through countries lag behind. And those where confidence in the government s liabilities has cracked, forcing the government into austerity, are doing worst.

I came up with rule number nine after I actually didn't plan for a fall, and went about 40 feet and cracked a rib.

The lavender ceiling has been cracked, but there is nowhere in the world today where inclusiveness has been fully achieved. There is still much more to do.

Last November, Andhra Pradesh, one of India s most populous states, cracked down heavily on private microfinance institutions (PMFIs), banning many of their activities and telling borrowers they did not need to repay their loans. State authorities said they were prompted to take decisive action by a spate of suicides by borrowers who were unable to pay their debts.

So, I figured, Oprah had dedicated an hour to doing this breath hold thing, if I had cracked early it would be a whole show about how depressed I am.

And I remember the horror of seeing this little female devil with this huge ulcerating, foul smelling tumor inside her mouth that had actually cracked off her entire lower jaw.

Even in the prime commercial districts and chic neighborhoods of Bangkok, the nation s richest city, a short walk reveals miles of cracked pavements, piles of uncollected garbage, and rats scurrying freely.

BERLIN During the long night of negotiations over Greece on July 12 13, something fundamental to the European Union cracked. Since then, Europeans have been living in a different kind of EU.

A trade agreement such as this puts US and Central American workers in the same labor market. If the whip is cracked in Tegucigalpa today, workers in Charlotte will feel it tomorrow.

Now the question is will Britain where confidence in the government has not cracked and where austerity is not forced but chosen join the others at the bottom and serve as a horrible warning?

Under adverse conditions, relatively high concentrations of radioactive xenon isotopes may be found emanating from nuclear reactors due to the release of fission products from cracked fuel rods, or fissioning of uranium in cooling water.

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Over 80 major diseases have been cracked at the genomic level, but this is quite extraordinary More has been learned about the underpinnings of disease in the last two and a half years than in the history of man.

Gradually, bringing it down, bringing it down.

So we have not yet cracked the problem of making it available as a rescue device, as a vending device during the floods in eastern India, when you have to deliver things to people in different islands where they're marooned.

Mornings begin with physical exercises while chanting Down down Mubarak! .

Down goes the economy and down goes the Labour government s standing.