cracking

The Communist Party of China gets a bad rap for cracking down on religion.

Protestors say the president is cracking down on free speech.

It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.

For a country forever cracking down on those perceived as veering from the sexual norm, being gay is finally starting to pay.

The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.

His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.

Along the shore they sped, speaking not a word till they had got the village in sight and their arms were cracking in the joints.

After waiting long, the hunters heard high above them a cracking, rushing sound; and suddenly they saw a great, hovering object.

"Up to sixteen thousand tons," Darrin replied, without cracking a smile.

Neither did his ears hear at first a low muffled cracking that had been going on for some time.