Synonyms for crack down
crack down

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1. clamp down, crack downverb

   repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

   "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

   Synonyms:
   clamp down

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1. Vern Buchanan:

   We've been talking about China stealing our technology for 20 years, it's still going on today, I think there's a lot of appetite to crack down on China.

2. Ryan Girdusky:

   Certainly, to crack down on sanctuary cities, i don't think that Katherine Steinle's death would have gotten the coverage it did had Donald Trump not been speaking about this.

3. Hua Jingfeng:

   Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases, a fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will also be an area that we will crack down on.

4. Tom Saggau:

   We agree with Councilmember Wesson that not every call our city leaders have asked us to respond to should be a police response, we are more than willing to talk about how, or if, we respond to non-criminal and non-emergency calls so we can free up time to respond quickly to 911 calls, crack down on violent and property crime, and expand our community policing efforts.

5. Jamie Farquhar:

   Together they have increased the tail risk that the U.S. will look to crack down on it in some way.