crackdown

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

   “After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.”