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Aluminum smelters, which typically use even more electricity than steel mills, haven't been shut down in the crackdown, he said.

Cameron, a Conservative, seems to have support for a potential crackdown, even from members of the opposition Labor Party.

Of that capacity, roughly 22 per cent is for "tier three" producers who would be most likely to be affected by a quality crackdown.

In a face of a crackdown, students spelled out the word, "freedom. "

The recent crackdown will punish debt-ridden clubs and perhaps make them think about how much money they are spending.

"I don't think a crackdown is going to happen, " she said. "How can something people love so much be stopped? "

Violence has continued to climb in Mexico despite a crackdown launched by President Felipe Calderon after he took office in 2006.

The effort comes just a year after a crackdown on pedophilia backfired.

The CBI, the employers' body, also welcomed the crackdown on illegal workers from abroad, but warned about how the money would be spent.

The kind of regulatory and tax arbitrage that small countries once profited from is now subject to an international crackdown.

The police " complain such a reform will not help their investigations and the crackdown on crime, " he said.

Speculation was rife that the detention heralded a crackdown on CDB and a potential challenge to Chen Yuan, the bank's powerful president.

He also said he would also push for a crackdown on Chinese internet sites that sell performance-enhancing drugs.

The crackdown at the Letpadaung mine is seen as a key test of how much dissent authorities will tolerate .

But since the central bank crackdown, new applicants have come up with no more than six at a time.

A Royal Navy spokesman said HMS Cumberland was one of the ships involved in the piracy crackdown.

The Arab League has been trying to convince the Syrian government to ease its violent crackdown on an uprising by demonstrators.

The publicity is in striking contrast to the many lawyers who have been quietly rounded up in a recent political crackdown.

Rights groups have said the campaign is being used as an excuse to crackdown on dissent and round up dissidents ahead of the 2008 Games.

On account of its rapid crackdown on infringement and low cost, administrative measures are very popular with right holders.

His crackdown on crime is one of his most eye-catching initiatives so far.

So for now at least, Bashar appears to have opted for a crackdown over change.

Joe Arpaio, nicknamed "America's toughest sheriff" , is a strong proponent of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.

Yet the implications of the international crackdown extend to wealthy investors who have never been tempted to dodge taxes.

The police crackdown on speeding is just a drop in the ocean in solving Taiwan's traffic problems.

The crackdown came after the health ministry said the scandal and the business of compensation was 'in principle over'.

The government crackdown appears to have had some effect on property sales volumes but have so far not budged prices off their highs much.

The detentions looked like the start of the wider crackdown that some fear a cornered UMNO might yet launch, to save its skin.

Chen Tong, editor-in-chief at Sina, China's leading news portal, said there was no point being surprised about the crackdown.

He said a tougher crackdown on piracy was essential to solving the problem of such advertisements placed into movies.

After a savage crackdown, the president, Vladimir Voronin, called for an amnesty to be granted to the protesters.

Many were shut down, and their authors jailed, after the crackdown that followed the election in June of that year.

U. S. companies with global manufacturing operations generally are more wary of any crackdown on Beijing.

Among the items mentioned were: a crackdown on street-racing, longer prison sentences for crimes involving guns, and fewer house arrests.

The crackdown contributed to a significant crime decrease, although follow-up studies suggest that police presence itself was the key.

But authorities had already signalled that another crackdown was coming, and it was not clear how harsh it would be.

The raid is part of an intensifying Hamas crackdown on Fatah. Since the bombing, more than 200 Fatah activists have been arrested.

It has led to calls for a crackdown on slow drivers including the setting of minimum limits or even 'slow speed' cameras.

But incidents like the apparent blog and microblogging crackdown suggest those complaints have not discouraged authorities.

But a recent government crackdown on "vulgarity" in the online games sector is forcing the girls to cover up, the Shanghai Daily said.

Much of the president's news conference was devoted to questions about the U. S. response to Tehran's crackdown.

There was a large scale violent crackdown in 2008 when protest against China broke out in Kathmandu before the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

The opposition continues to be outspoken in its criticism of the regime and significant unrest could spark a fierce crackdown.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on anti-government protesters has been leavened with at least verbal concessions to reform.

Japanese media said it was the police crackdown Yamaguchi group escalation.

But the crackdown in Bahrain appeared to be the most heavy-handed seen on Thursday.

Many Tamils fear a nationwide crackdown on anyone suspected to have had links with the LTTE.

What follows is a partial list of Chinese activists swept up in the ongoing crackdown.

Nevertheless the government crackdown seems to have fallen mainly on other mafias.

At least 5, 400 people have been killed in Syria as a result of Assad's brutal crackdown on the demonstrators.

Despite fears from some quarters of a possible police crackdown, the government has suggested it would not enforce the ban.

The deals behind the FTC crackdown have become increasingly common ever since Congress opened the door for generic drug competition in 1984.

Another important factor is a Chinese government crackdown on producers of fake handsets that has intensified over the course of this year.

France has begun to deport Roma (Gypsies) as part of a crackdown on illegal camps in the country, BBC reported.

Mr. Bin Laden focused entirely on Pakistan, claiming President Asif Ali Zardari was paid by the White House to start the crackdown.

Already, more than 300 people have been killed in a crackdown across the country, human rights groups say. Hundreds more have been arrested.

He makes pro-forma statements about upholding the rule of law, at a time when authorities have launched a new crackdown on activist lawyers.

Beneficiaries of this crackdown should include tax- efficient jurisdictions that have already concluded DTAs with China.

It was completed just before the crackdown and has never been operated.

In the short term, the crackdown on the property market is likely to mean China's growth will be slower than it would have been otherwise.

"There were no medical personnel or ambulances around before the crackdown, " he said.

At the same time, related functions increasing crackdown on fake bamboo charcoal fiber products, and has continued to maintain the pressure.

Internet users commenting on the latest crackdown criticized the government for using the same tactics as the companies it had targeted.

He represented a billionaire property magnate, Zhou Zhengyi, who was charged as part of a massive corruption crackdown in Shanghai.

The crackdown is the largest against the American Mafia since the early 1990s.

But with central and local governments cutting spending, and with a crackdown on public corruption, there is less money to go around.

The internet and mobile crackdown did not derail the protests.

Added to that, the government's crackdown on drug-trafficking cartels had led to a surge in violence, with apparently little pay-off.

This week, Beijing signalled a crackdown on heavy industry as a way of meeting self-imposed energy efficiency targets.

The Syrian regime has dramatically intensified its crackdown against the protesters in an effort to crush the opposition.

Ms. Li is seized by officials in a small town during a family planning crackdown, taken to a hospital and forcibly sterilized.

White House officials are concerned the crackdown might interfere with anti-terrorism operations.

The Chinese leadership's crackdown no doubt chagrined those in democracies who advocated giving China the games.

The U. N. Security Council met in an emergency session February 22 to discuss the violent crackdown on protesters in Libya.

The crackdown was initiated by owners and the basketball operations division and was also based in part on market research.

But people familiar with the protest leaders' thinking say the threat may also be aimed at provoking a sharp police crackdown.

He added that security forces there continue to hold people hostage through a "widening crackdown. "

As one of the worst countries in the world for abductions , the Mexico government's crackdown on crime is not successful.

A crackdown on opponents of his government continued in response to that attack.

Orlando is appealing the decision, and Middletown, Connecticut, is in the midst of a crackdown.

These days lenders are in a spin as they struggle to cope with write-offs, a regulatory crackdown and changes in consumer behaviour.

Mr Gupta, who denies any wrongdoing, is the most prominent person yet to be charged in a crackdown on insider trading.

Major cases in Chongqing's crackdown on organized crime will be written into a novel, local media reported.

But the crackdown this year appears to be even harsher in the wake of the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

North Korea has condemned disruptions of the torch relay elsewhere, and supported Beijing in its crackdown on violent protests in Tibet.

Now, a bloody crackdown by his regime on pro-reform demonstrators is defining his rule.

'But the government's harsh crackdown on real estate has limited my ability to borrow using property as collateral, ' he said.

She also was a goodwill ambassador for the U. N. Development Program, although she lost this position when the government crackdown began.

The raid was part of a crackdown on increasing crime in Guangdong that has been brought on in part by the economic downturn.

Indian officials are closely monitoring Pakistan's crackdown on insurgents, especially the ongoing military operation against the Taliban.

But some like the UK's Open Rights Group argue a government-led crackdown is the wrong way to go about fighting piracy.

The town's transformation began with a government crackdown on illegal drug and paramilitary activity in the region.

Fidesz promised tax cuts, a simplified bureaucracy and a crackdown on corruption and criminality.

In April 2003, he was convicted, as were 75 others who had been rounded up in the now-infamous March 2003 crackdown on dissent.

The United Nations refugee agency says it has reports that more than 50 people have been killed in the crackdown in Taiz.

The U. S. government has said it will strengthen the "base" crackdown on the organization, while strengthening the alert.

But after four months of protests and a violent crackdown, the authorities' talk of resistance rings hollow.

Public spending is estimated to have slowed in the first half owing to a crackdown on wasteful spending .

A recent crackdown by Beijing on rare earth mines and restrictions on exports have caused chaos in some of these markets.

Japanese tend to view China as an economic rival and a security threat, and the recent Chinese crackdown on Tibet didn't help.

The provincial authorities launched a crackdown this week, but little is expected of it.

As a result of the lack of transparency, the crackdown on corruption, instead of comforting investors, spooked them.

THE Syrian government's attempts to conceal the extent of the crackdown in the country have taken on an Orwellian quality.

Despite repeated vows by Guangzhou police to crackdown on touts, they were appearing at most events where Chinese athletes were performing.

Now Sina Weibo and Chinese social-media sites are the target of a new government crackdown.

is part of a broader nationwide crackdown on land-hoarding and land left idle by property developers.

China has made notable progress in its crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement following months-long campaigns.

Zimbabwe and Malawi are just part of crackdown on gay rights in much of the developing world, and particularly in Africa.

There would be a crackdown on illegal mining and mining above permitted levels.

The coup also brought in a crackdown on fringe groupings of Islamic extremists courted by the former BNP government.

Schools and religious organisations say the crackdown is pushing American volunteers with signing authority over accounts to stand down.

In response to Tuesday's article about the crackdown in New York, many of you made good arguments for and against the proposed restrictions.

More recently they both vetoed a Security Council Resolution that would have condemned Syria's violent crackdown on protestors.

The plunge was mainly triggered by rumours of a government crackdown on buying stocks with borrowed money and other dubious practices.

Curiously, before the crackdown, there was more information available on private companies in China than perhaps anywhere else in the world.

The threat of a trial came as the 27 EU countries examined potential steps to protest against Iran's crackdown on dissent.

But after the 1989 Chinese crackdown on pro-democracy forces, the United States cut off the supply of engines.

ONE of the striking features of Mexico's crackdown on drug gangs is that the resulting violence has kept a wide berth of the capital.

They turned into widespread violence on Friday following reports of a Chinese crackdown.

This comes as international pressure mounts on the Libyan leader to stop the violent crackdown on the demonstrators.

Now our crackdown movement to the outdoor barbecue has no time limit, because it won't be over once they appear.

Occasional desertions and the mysterious sacking of Ali Habib, the defence minister, suggest some unease over the crackdown.

Muammar Gaddafi's brutal crackdown of a nationwide revolt against his oppressive leadership will also come under Ocampo's scrutiny.

A draft of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian crackdown is circulating.

Besides environmental concerns, geopolitics also appears to have played a role in the crackdown.

But now the spark is as much the brutal crackdown by the government as it seeks to crush dissent.

The move comes as part of a widening crackdown on insider trading and other financial irregularities during the past six months.

It has stressed the harsh Chinese crackdown on peaceful protests and tended to overlook the violence by Tibetans.

Phyo Than fled Burma in 1991, during a government crackdown on political dissidents in the wake of that country's last general election.

But an attempt to engage Belarus collapsed after the regime's crackdown in December.

The United Nations human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on opposition protests.

Less than a month after Suu Kyi's plea for peace, the army unleashed another crackdown, killing hundreds.

However gay-rights activists see it as part of an on-again, off-again crackdown on the LGBT community.

Intra-Asian investors are also feeling the heat, as Thailand's crackdown shows.

She was referring, among other things, to the 20th anniversary in June of the Tiananmen crackdown.

But a recent crackdown on Christians, about a tenth of Syria's people, is causing jitters.

The country's ambassadors to the Arab League and India also resigned in protest at the brutality of the crackdown by security forces.

The escalation of the latter has resulted in a sharp crackdown on human rights activists and lawyers.

The jailing of Mr Hu for three years on subversion charges in April was seen by fellow activists as part of the pre-games crackdown.

But India is deeply suspicious of Pakistan and demanding a stronger crackdown on extremist elements within the country's borders.

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The appeal at the end to "inner calm" may sound tranquil, but one can't help but wonder whether it's a euphemism for a crackdown.

In Zimbabwe, a top opposition party official says police have raided its offices in what he called the start of a crackdown.

Many observers conclude that the crown must be behind the crackdown.

The crackdown's real catalyst was the recent explosion of high-end food trucks in Midtown.

China has criticized a United Nations human rights resolution condemning Syria's deadly eight-month crackdown on anti-government protesters.

The ching court has crackdown around the peasant uprising and Ming KangQing armed, and gradually unified the country.

He even donned a police uniform for an appearance on the Fox News program "America Live" to ridicule the crackdown.

China has released two prominent reform proponents in a twist following its recent crackdown on activists.

The deployment was a clear escalation in his crackdown on the uprising.

The endeavor of the federalgovernment's crackdown on cardinal bureaucratic crimes received compliments from the enthusiastic citizens.

But the Russian and Chinese governments seemed likely to block a UN Security Council resolution condemning the crackdown.

Since the prize was awarded in early October, the Chinese Communist Party has embarked on a sweeping crackdown on dissidents.

Iranians fleeing the Tehran government's crackdown on its opponents are increasingly seeking refuge in Turkey.

During the recent crackdown on women's dress, for instance, the taxi drivers were the ones with the most information.

What's more, it has brought a crackdown on local culture, both mainstream and the burgeoning artistic community.

News coverage of the crackdown was beamed around the world via satellite by CNN.

But some experts say that despite the recent crackdown and increased scrutiny, tax havens will continue to exist.

"The crackdown in Burma is far from over, " said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

Have increased the current international intellectual property protection and crackdown on piracy.

The penalties come as some investors have been predicting a crackdown on illegal trading activities.

Indeed, your country is much less democratic than Iran, and your crackdown has killed more people on a per capita basis than Iran's did.

Multinational companies have spent millions of dollars beefing up their compliance programs amid a U. S. crackdown on foreign bribery.

The UN is to send a humanitarian mission to Syria on Saturday to assess the situation there after Damascus' violent crackdown on protesters.

The forum would also be charged with implementing a crackdown on tax havens that will be recommended Thursday when the G20 summit concludes.

Paramilitary troops have been at the forefront of the crackdown.

Key government officials have resigned and air force pilots have defected following a crackdown on protests in Tripoli, Libya's capital.

On occasions during the current crackdown their members have arrested or shot people from rival branches.

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has said, if the crackdown continues, sanctions are inevitable.

They were forced to take up arms to confront a crackdown using every military tool in Col Gaddafi's arsenal.

This coincided with a crackdown by Beijing on illegal and dangerous mines.

The crackdown with tanks and troops showed no signs of easing amid an international outcry over violence against demonstrators.

King Hamad, you present the crackdown on the democracy movement as an effort to restore order.

However, violence has intensified in Iraq since Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a crackdown on Shi'ite militias in Basra last month.

Jawad Fairooz and Matar Matar were detained in May after resigning from parliament in protest against a crackdown by security forces.

The extreme right group, which advocates a crackdown on immigrants is a legal political party and benefits from state funding.

In a Tuesday meeting, the Council expressed "grave concern" about Mr. Gadhafi's crackdown.

Authorities have not announced the arrest drug crackdown Alai Mountain and the number of casualties.

In one especially damaging consequence of the crackdown, China has tightened visa procedures for foreign visitors of all sorts.

The Islamic militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip has launched a crackdown on its rivals after a deadly bomb attack.

The crackdown comes after the death of a 17-year-old French girl who ate the psychedelic fungi and jumped from a building.

Fresh protests flared in southern Syria on Saturday, a day after a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

The nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek's vicious crackdown in Shanghai in 1927 threatened to wipe out the party completely.

Mr Brown wants a crackdown on tax havens and a global deal to curb bankers' pay.

The nationwide crackdown reveals that the processing of "gutter oil" has formed an industrial chain.

President Assad is also coming under increased foreign pressure to stop the deadly crackdown.

The EU also staged a crackdown on "harmful tax practices" , including unequal treatment of residents and non-residents.

Global demand has been eroded by Beijing's crackdown on the industry over the past two years.

During the crackdown, Mr Thaksin was seen in Paris shopping at Louis Vuitton, an upmarket luggage shop.

The latest crackdown follows this pattern but appears to be more wide-ranging than earlier efforts.

And it won't be limited to pay-as-you-go rules, tax increases on somebody else, or a crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse.

As for the crackdown on trust products, regulators may have difficulty, analysts say.

Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied Tuesday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels.

During the Olympics, they execute a nation-wide crackdown on the political dissidents.

Details on the implementation of the law are still being negotiated, and it' s not clear when authorities will begin the crackdown.

She suggested the Tehran government's crackdown on internal dissent only enhances doubts about is intentions.

Interpol says more than 5, 000 people across Asia have been arrested in a crackdown on illegal gambling during the World Cup.

At first glance, China's recent crackdown in Tibet looks like a familiar storyline: a dictatorship represses its people.

In June, after armed men ambushed a boat, killing a soldier, the crackdown spread to another county, Fashoda.

At the same time, set up files rights crackdown, the public rights and set up a hotline to report to provide a certain amount of reward.

The Junta try to prevent more videos, photographs and information about their violent crackdown getting out.

In the two-month crackdown on crime, some policemen were investigated on suspicion of involving in gang crimes.

The Serbian government is trumpeting this as a crackdown on organised crime.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch last week waned that public dissent in Iran had gone underground following the brutal crackdown.

In Afghanistan, farmers begin harvesting this year's opium crop, defying a US-sponsored crackdown on the world's largest narcotics industry.

It seems that the trusts were collateral damage from a regulatory crackdown on banks.

Mr Abbas's intelligence chiefs have intimidated independent journalists who have reported on the crackdown.

Senior police and officials and powerful businesspeople were among the 1, 500 people detained in the huge crackdown.

Mr Assad has come under mounting international pressure to end his violent crackdown on demonstrators.

Similarly, the broader anti-government red-shirt movement is floundering after a crackdown by security forces.

It developed "Haystack" software after an Iranian government crackdown on Internet use after 2009's disputed presidential election.

But even someone like Dai, who served a term in prison for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, says she feels the tug of the motherland.

The energy crackdown has already "loosened a lot" , said Cai Shuli, head of iron ore for Tangshan Ruiyin International Trade Company.

The detention will fuel criticism over China's pre-Olympics crackdown on dissidents and social activists.

Syrian security forces moved the focus of their ongoing crackdown from Hama to Deir ez-Zor, a city farther east.

A crackdown on critics this year that was widely seen as being linked to the August Beijing Olympics drew little diplomatic protest.

Whatever its intrinsic merits, the timing of the crackdown is unfortunate.

So Sarft's crackdown on entertainment shows is partly aimed at enriching CCTV, industry observers argue.

Officials say Israel will not open negotiations on Palestinian statehood, until there is a crackdown on militants.

Chinese authorities have arrested four people in its latest crackdown on melamine-tainted dairy products.

The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters.

The 2003 crackdown drove up prices, smashed trafficking networks and forced addicts into rehabilitation programmes.

A crackdown to meet energy-efficiency and pollution targets has also cooled the economy.

The interim leaders vowed a crackdown on political corruption, jailing hundreds of people, including Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.

In the UK, Switzerland and across Europe, the regulatory crackdown on bonuses has been particularly enthusiastic.

The crackdown in Bahrain came as anti-government protesters again took to the streets in Iraq, Libya, and Yemen.

Internet cafe owners to actively launch the report "Internet cafes" to intensify the crackdown.

This prompted a demonstration by several hundred activists, who believe the crackdown has gone too far.

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In text messages and TV broadcasts the government had warned on Tuesday that any more "disturbances" could elicit another harsh crackdown.

A crackdown in July has broken one of the largest rings, arresting 369 suspects and saving 89 children.

Many file-sharing websites have looked for new ways to host content following the recent piracy crackdown.

It will soon become clear whether the crackdown can stem the sectarian bloodbath.

Iran now for murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery implement crackdown, many people have been sentenced to death.

Those who defame and insult China should ask themselves: Who on earth are doing the so-called "Crackdown" ?

For sure, a crackdown on counterfeiting network will help authority to enhance the IP law enforcement.

Leaders of the red-shirt movement said they now feared a government crackdown to forcibly disperse them from their Bangkok encampment.

His ardently nationalist supporters cheered the crackdown on Walmart.

Under the existing rules of private roads, we see no evidence of a crackdown on texting.

American observers also had concerns about the bans of election rallies and the crackdown on the news media.

Several channels are boycotting Syrian productions in protest at the violent crackdown on dissent by the government in Damascus.

Illegal buying and selling of human organs has been written into the draft amendment to intensify the crackdown.

In Iran, the Western crackdown on Tehran over its nuclear ambitions has given Iranian Kurds hope for change.

A crackdown on a few tax havens, just decided by the G20, is important.

'I wish that we would have as aggressive a crackdown in our area as there is in Chongqing, ' says Ms. Wang.

Judging the likely efficacy of the anti-doping crackdown is impossible.

The crackdown would use "tip-offs, spot-checks and undercover investigations" , Mr Man said.

Yet relatively few governments and agencies have expressed public concern about the crackdown.

The move comes after the central government initiated a crackdown on violations against food safety.

A brutal regime crackdown quickly transformed the protests into an armed rebellion.