Sentences with phrase «officials cracked down»

The cryptocurrency took a plunge after Chinese officials cracked down on bitcoin, banned ICOs and closed down cryptocurrency exchanges.

People hit the streets in protest, and the officials cracked down.

Now that we're home, we're on official crack down mode on the nursery and everything else related to baby.

In schools, the analog to such policies is a «zero tolerance» discipline code, in which school officials crack down on even «low level» offenses such as defiance, minor physical contact, and inappropriate language, because of the potential consequences of such behavior on other students and their learning.

Not exact matches

State officials are cracking down on small businesses that don't comply with tax law relating to online sales.

Multinational companies can expect the European Commission to press on with a crack down on sweetheart tax deals after handing Apple a breathtaking demand for 13 billion euros, officials and experts said on Wednesday.

Apparently, they're filling in for their Chinese counterparts, who aren't feeling particularly chipper this year, with the economy there slowing and Beijing cracking down on lavish gifts to corrupt officials.

In 2010, Russ Shay, the Alliance's public policy director, privately urged IRS officials to crack down on the syndicators through more aggressive action than individual audits — perhaps by issuing a public advisory.

It will call on the departments of Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take action to crack down on what the official called «fraud and abuse» in the U.S. immigration system to protect American workers.

California and federal officials have cracked down on a major compounding pharmacy they say posed a threat to public safety, but their actions are worsening shortages of medications that doctors rely on to keep their patients out of pain.

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Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

China has been increasingly cracking down on official government churches and on human rights attorneys.

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If the incompetent officials acted on their early season promise to crack down on this, then he would have given away several penalties by now.

Mexico has vowed not to let the United States impose migration reforms on it as its leaders prepared Thursday to host US officials who are cracking down on illegal immigrants.

A City Council bill would force the apartment - sharing service to turn over the names and addresses of all its New York City hosts so officials can crack down on units with «violations» — even when those breaches have nothing to do with their Airbnb listing.

The city's Campaign Finance Board says Mayor Bill de Blasio's outside nonprofit group did not break campaign finance laws, but the board chairwoman had tough words for the mayor Wednesday and urged city officials to crack down on groups like de Blasio's.

The Assembly backs the Dream Act, which would extend financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children; the Senate opposes the idea and instead wants to crack down on local governments that refuse to fully cooperate with federal immigration officials.

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District has made a name for himself with his crusade against political corruption both in Albany and New York City, repeatedly chastising elected officials from Cuomo on down for not doing more to crack down on bad actors.

A coalition of labor leaders and elected officials is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill aimed at cracking down on Airbnb advertising.

Long Island Republican Rep. Peter King said he has signed on with the Obama administration's campaign to crack down on criminal and terrorist use of shell corporations and met today to discuss it with other lawmakers and national security officials in the White House Situation Room.

He insisted it was an official visit as part of an inquiry by the Culture, Media and Sport select committee into new laws cracking down on such establishments.

The U.S. Senate voted 62 - 37 to confirm Kirstjen Nielsen as the secretary of homeland security, elevating a top White House aide and former agency official to oversee the department central to Trump's plan to crack down on illegal immigration and beef up border security.

Westchester County officials say a year - long initiative to crack down on heroin sales resulted in 20 arrests Tuesday.

Shelley Mayer has always stood up for what's right, helping pass a law to strip the pensions of public officials who violate the public trust and fighting for legislation that cracks down on politicians who use their offices for private gain.

Police officials were not commenting about a recent report by Investigative Post which suggests the city's Strike Force, formed by the mayor to crack down on gangs and drugs, have conducted some searches without proper cause.

Rice, who has argued that she's better situated that at least two of her opponents — Sen. Eric Schneiderman and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky — to go after corruption in Albany because she's an «outsider», has called for amending the Executive Law so the AG doesn't need gubernatorial approval to investigate state officials and also a change in the Election Law to empower the office to crack down on violations.

His office's official position is that they never pressed the Albany mayor's office to crack down, and that the city backed down on its own.

In the wake of recent news articles, however, election officials decided to crack down, he said.

ALBANY, NY — New York could become the next state to legalize marijuana for recreational use even as federal officials prepare to crack down on the drug.

That bill was introduced in response to a measure by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D - Manhattan), an Airbnb opponent, who wants to force Airbnb hosts to register their apartments so officials can crack down on illegal rentals.

Unlike competing technologies such as scratch - off labels, patients could not verify if a drug was authentic, they would have to rely on officials to crack down, which might not be so reliable in developing countries where fakes and bribery of officials are common.

Cracking down on those small but energy - inefficient devices was just one of many suggestions about 50 superintendents and other district officials heard during a recent «energy summit» sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators.

New Jersey education officials, seeking to recover as much as $ 10 million, are cracking down on school districts they believe inflated enrollment figures to get more state aid.

One student, who has since enrolled at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, slowly pushed a bag of crack vials down the table to the city officials.

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This disregard for his duties as a full - time employee of the Hartford Public Schools comes at a time when federal, state and local officials are cracking down on absenteeism.

Now, the EU is threatening to make good on its promise to government officials and booksellers alike, assuring that they will crack down on countries who intentionally undermine the tax rate that all other EU countries abide by.

OTTAWA — Canadian tax authorities are on track to recover at least an additional $ 400 million this year as part of a campaign to crack down on tax evasion by big international companies and wealthy individuals, particularly those using offshore tax havens, a top official says.

In the face of worldwide condemnation, officials have cracked down on public displays of slaughter and limited advertisement of dog meat by restaurants.

Florida wildlife officials are proposing a tough policy of ridding public hunting areas of feral cats and also cracking down on feral cat shelters anywhere near threatened or endangered species of wildlife.

Less than ten days since its filing, a petition submitted to the White House from The Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA ® and the Humane Society Legislative Fund asking President Obama to crack down on puppy mills gathered more than 10,600 signatures — doubling the threshold needed to assure an official response.

Officials also can crack down on offenders through the code enforcement board, which can levy fines of up to $ 250 a day.

The HSUS is now working with state officials to create new legislation in North Carolina to crack down on puppy mills like Thornton's Kennels.

Even though Detroit officials are keen on tearing down abandoned buildings and crack houses, they are popping up faster than you can say, «Hey, I'm squatting here!»

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.

Florida votes to crack down on freshwater turtle trade Florida wildlife officials tentatively approved a new rule that will ban most freshwater turtle harvests to protect the populations of roughly 19 species.

Reporters Without Borders marks the World Summit on the Information Society by presenting 15 countries that are «enemies of the Internet» — «the countries that crack down hardest on Internet use, censoring news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes imprisoning Internet users and bloggers who deviate from the regime's official line.»