Sentences with phrase «crackdown on»

The pay rise will be balanced by a crackdown on perks such as a # 15 dinner allowance when the Commons sits after 19:30.

«Plenty of ugly talk about a crackdown on migrants.

NYC denies that there are quotas for cops — but the mayor's budget office is projecting $ 5.86 million in extra parking summons revenue next year as the result of a crackdown on government placards.

But no crackdown on those bosses who use cheap labour to cut costs.

On 5 June 1989, the morning after a brutal crackdown on protestors by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a row of tanks was ploughing down an avenue near Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Last year, we informed Reform NY readers about Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's effort to crackdown on non-profit 501 (c) groupsengaging in secretive political spending.

Meanwhile, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling pledged a crackdown on Islamic extremists, especially those who protest against the armed forces.

Their centrepiece is a sharp hike in stamp duty, combined with a crackdown on those who shelter expensive properties in corporate structures.

Many have been threatened with deportation or stripped of their rights to work, benefits and healthcare amid a Government crackdown on illegal immigration.

The Oneida County STOP DWI Program announced today that Oneida County Police Agencies will participate in a special enforcement effort to crackdown on impaired driving throughout the FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

The biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years will be unveiled on Wednesday, including new plans to criminalise picketing, permit employers to hire strike - breaking agency staff and choke off the flow of union funds to the Labour party.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis denounced what she characterized as a City crackdown on pet caretakers, saying that such effort is unnecessarily burdensome and will unfairly drive some dog walkers and sitters out of business.

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo is proposing a crackdown on the coordination of candidates for office and the super PACS that are created to support their campaigns.

In the latest crackdown on smoking, de Blasio signed a law raising the minimum price of a pack from $ 10.50 to $ 13 starting in January — the highest in the nation.

«It's progress that more tax authorities will know who owns phantom firms so they can crackdown on them, but a summit focussed on transparency can't justify keeping this information secret.

State Police issued more than 21,000 tickets during the «Speed Week» campaign to crackdown on speeding and aggressive driving.

This article illustrates Barack Obama's reaction to this: Barack Obama is launching a crackdown on international tax...

And that it was the army's inadequate response, combined with their crackdown on catholic anger which helped spur so many years of bitter conflict.

De Blasio's crackdown on parking - placard abuse could start with a fellow elected official.

There was uproar today after a council leader in Windsor called for a crackdown on rough sleepers before the royal wedding in May.

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

More cases will be pursued and tougher sentences sought by sending suspects straight to Crown Court, Keir Starmer, QC, will say as he sets out new guidelines for the Crown Prosecution Service... The move comes amid a general government crackdown on benefit fraud.

More than 1,700 property owners who have not complied with the requirements of the 421a program have had the benefit yanked as part of a crackdown on rule - breakers.

«As many of you know, I ran a public interest group that worked for many of the Giuliani policies that turned this city around — like the crackdown on porn shops and squeegee men — and I don't want to turn back the clock.»

«Benefit cheats face increased jail terms of up to ten years under an unprecedented crackdown on those who «flout the system», Britain's most senior prosecutor will announce today.

A planned crackdown on housing discrimination across New York State could soon result in some Realtors losing their licenses, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo told congregants Sunday at a Harlem church.

Tory members give strong backing to the Chancellor's decisions on (a) child benefit, (b) investment in capital projects, science and apprenticeships, (c) the crackdown on waste, and (d) forcing the BBC to share in austerity.

The New York City Council is in the process of crafting new legislation that aims to further the city's crackdown on Airbnb.

State troopers on Long Island wrote 535 speeding tickets during a recent crackdown on speeding motorists, Cuomo announced.

Recognizing what it called «the troubling reality» that electronic cigarettes have become «wildly popular with kids,» the FDA announced a major crackdown on the vaping industry, particularly on the trendy Juul devices, aimed at curbing sales to young people.

Across New York State, law enforcement agencies are in the middle of a five - day crackdown on drivers who use phones and other electronic devices while their vehicles are moving, often at high speeds.

Following the killing of Lee Rigby in Woolwich and the conviction of Mark Bridger for the murder of April Jones, ministers want internet firms to work together to put together convincing plans for a crackdown on illegal materials.

That would not, of course, include the AG, who is studiously focused on his current job, announcing a crackdown on child porn during an upstate swing and largely avoiding the press in the process.

A crackdown on underage drinking and illegal alcohol sales in New York has led to more than 100 arrests and the seizure of more than 125 fake IDs.

Amid NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's crackdown on electric bicycles, the city Department of Transportation clarified that pedal - assist bikes that top out at 20 mph will be legal, but people on e-bikes with a throttle that require no pedaling will continue to get tickets.

Gordon Brown has promised to crackdown on alcohol sales to teenagers, while the government is told that the availability of alcohol full stop is the real problem.

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A few days after the bloody crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Rabaa Square last August an Omani daily close to the government wrote in an editorial that the Sultanate stands with Egypt's leadership in «all the necessary steps taken by it to maintain peace».

Chambers» conviction had sparked a Twitter outrage over the crackdown on free speech.

He was concurrently spearheading a brutal crackdown on his political opposition led by now - deceased nationalist Joshua Nkomo that claimed more than 20,000 lives, according to the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.

In a statement, former President Barack Obama spoke out against Trump's efforts to seal the United States borders against people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, siding with protesters around the country outraged at the crackdown on immigration.

He said: «As we crackdown on binge - drinking and underage drinking, it is right that we take action which is properly targeted and effective.

But the stark truth is that the bill is not about regulation: it's crackdown on civil society, and it's driven partly by the National Assembly's obsession with control but also by self - protection.

Last week the home secretary announced a new crackdown on underage drinking, promising stricter enforcement of existing laws and more measures to hold parents responsible for their children's behaviour.

«The brutal crackdown on protesters and residents in the western counties, part of a pattern of violence and repression in opposition strongholds, undermined the national elections,» said Otsieno Namwaya, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The military has announced tougher measures to crackdown on recurrent violence in the Bunkprugu district of the Northern Region.

There's also been rumblings down in the city that Bloomberg is about to launch a broader crackdown on conditions in the park.

Dr Brown explains that the reasons for the UK's current status go back many decades to the 1960s, when formula milk was first widely promoted as a superior alternative to breastfeeding and suggests that a crackdown on advertising of formula milk is necessary if we are to reverse this trend.

Campaigners claim victory as crackdown on «closer to breastmilk» infant formula promotions is announced in the UK