Sentences with phrase «of cracking down»

South Korea and Chinese regulators have already hinted at the possibility of cracking down on cryptocurrency mining and trading.

This is so that regulators will not get the idea of cracking down on fundraising models done for Blockchain technology.

It also issued warnings of cracking down domestic cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) recommended that instead of cracking down on such motorists with harsh penalties, a better policy would be to find ways to provide more affordable insurance and lower the minimum liability limits for safe, uninsured drivers who have lower income.

The UK government is soon to introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill with the intention of cracking down on legal transparency, but while the Human Rights Committee deems this a «significant step forward,» it states that there is a need for more safeguards.

The UK government is soon to introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill with the intention of cracking down on legal...

County commissioners are looking at the possibility of cracking down on golf carts on some roads in Manatee County.

Instead of cracking down on MMS [Minerals Management Service], as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's culture of corruption.

Instead of cracking down on subpar schools, SB 1 locks in a system in which students that are in private voucher schools declared to be «chronically failing» can continue to use taxpayer - funded vouchers to attend these schools.

Modern senior dating sites have well - established methods of cracking down on non-genuine profiles.

The protesters the Observer spoke to proposed remedies ranging from the end of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's «broken windows» strategy of cracking down on small quality of life violations to the complete abolition of the police force to the public seizure and conversion of derelict properties to housing for the homeless.

In terms of cracking down on the per diem abuses that have been seen in the legislature.

The Ulster Town Board will consider ways of cracking down on the use of personal fireworks in the days leading up to and following next summer's Independence Day after a local resident discussed her concerns before councilmen at a meeting last week.

In hopes of cracking down on «parasitic» opioid dealers, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn at a news conference announced the re-establishment of a stand - alone narcotics bureau with three full - time prosecutors.

«His administration made serious work of cracking down on radical Islamic groups,» Open Doors said.

About half of the cost is due to increased consumption of natural gas that will be the side - effect of cracking down on coal.

Still, Dimon also took aim at several of Trump's policies and promises, warning of the dangers of scrapping longstanding trade agreements and of cracking down on immigration, although he did so without explicitly criticizing the President.

Most experts felt the government used the revaluation as a means of cracking down on a budding private sector.

While the regulatory side of the crackdown is discussed often, the banking side of the crack down isn't discussed much.

Not exact matches

Cracking down on abuse inevitably means deciding what kind of speech is tolerated and what isn't, something Facebook has also run into difficulty with.

Update: It was revealed Thursday that the Ontario Ministry of Labour will begin cracking down on unpaid interns at magazines, starting with Toronto Life and The Walrus.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

Crime Inc. goes inside the entertainment industry to meet some of the people losing their livelihood to piracy and also follows law enforcement trying to crack down on this seemingly victimless crime.

The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

Delta Air Lines is cracking down on comfort dogs, turkeys and a host of other animals passengers bring on board.

And then we have the president using language that really is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «fake news» used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.

Consider yourself warned: The U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service are cracking down on companies that misclassify employees as independent contractors to avoid paying employment taxes.

States are starting to crack down on this behavior, but it will soon be a thing of the past.

Well, it is largely determined by the author's ability to keep the «flow» of the story going and to deliver during pivotal moments, the same way a good prosecutor may begin to bare down on a witness that starts to show signs of «cracking».

Trump, whose administration is moving to crack down on leaks of U.S. government information, also retweeted a Fox News report based on anonymous sources that said U.S. spy satellites had detected North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a patrol boat.

The IRS cracked down in the early 2000s, and many were stripped of their non-profit status.

In its most recent scandal, Uber's use of the software «Greyball,» which was used to track authorities in cities that were cracking down on the app and have drivers avoid picking them up, has subjected the company to federal inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Crypto crackdown China, home to the world's biggest community of Bitcoin miners, is cracking down on cryptocurrency activity, haling trade of virtual currencies on domestic exchanges and banning initial currency offerings.

Changes to Facebook's news feed as part of an initiative to crack down on the share of low - quality viral videos reduced the amount of time users spend on the network by 50 million hours a day in the fourth quarter, the company reports.

The golden age of counterfeiting came to an end in 1865, when the Secret Service was created to crack down on phony bills.

He is promising an American revival of factories, to punish bad actors on trade and to crack down on immigration.

China, home to the world's biggest community of Bitcoin miners, is cracking down on cryptocurrency activity.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Earlier this month, Spotify confirmed that it had begun cracking down on use of unauthorized apps, designed to circumvent the limitations of Spotify's free service.

Johnson's comments are rather curious considering at the end of June, Nike announced a deal to sell its sneakers and apparel on Amazon to crack down on unauthorized third - party vending.

Some Chinese firms may be under scrutiny for acquisitions, but China isn't cracking down on foreign investments, the director general of the ICC - NDRC said

A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that over time the thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles.

Hillary Clinton has been considered one of the biggest threats to biotech investors ever since September 2015, when she pushed biotech stocks into a bear market with a single tweet about cracking down on drug price hikes that cost the sector $ 40 billion in market value.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wary of brokers who make their money by «riding the calendar» of new stock and bond issues rather than patiently building the firm's wealth management business, Morgan Stanley is cracking down where it hurts the most: compensation.

The streaming service has been trying to crack down on inappropriate content by hiring more human reviewers and using technology to automate the process of flagging offensive videos.

«The whole marketplace, our entire business, is built on the trust that consumers have in our platform,» he said «With a platform that does annually $ 370 billion GMV a year, you're going to see some issues with it because it's a large reflection of what's going on in the offline community, but we are taking a very draconian approach to cracking down on counterfeits.

The Treasury said on Friday it will postpone enforcement of a new law that cracks down on offshore tax avoidance by Americans.

Since late last year, Beijing has been cracking down on overseas investment as wads of cash flew out of the country, adding downward pressure to an already depreciating yuan.

And now that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on sanctuary cities, where immigrants can live without fear of local authorities turning them in to the federal government, these groups are vulnerable to the recent deportation raids.

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.