What is "crackdowns"

Usage examples of "crackdowns".

When drug shipments were bogged down because of periodic governmental crackdowns, Nemeroff could move them.

And we have it again in the peace of Moscow — spies, informers, police crackdowns, and all.

Three had been hanged as common thieves during crackdowns by the Prince's magistrates.

The company has its easy times and it has its crackdowns, and both of us can remember when toilet paper didn’t have stuff in it to break it down so you can’t make press-paper anymore, you got to use those damn cards you stick into these damn readers that we don’t know where the hell they connect to.