While Americans have clamped down on high-end lodging expenses, indulgence in luxury air travel is rising.
In the past year though, the authorities seem to have clamped down on it successfully.
Slow to raise interest rates, China's authorities have clamped down on investment by more direct means.
As Siemens half-heartedly clamped down on corruption, managers took ever more eccentric steps to avoid getting caught.
The coyotes had to shift tactics after the Border Patrol clamped down on the urban border crossings.
Paris clamped down, making it nearly impossible for independent stock companies to form, while London was far less restrictive.
In a less noticeable but arguably more important change, Google has also clamped down on use of its MapsAPI.
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Last December, the Dutch government clamped down on this wheeze by ordering the post office to open all suspicious packages.
Communities secretary Eric Pickles said the government had clamped down on the overuse and abuse of surveillance powers by town halls.
After a steady stream of occasionally embarrassing reports, Yahoo in recent months has clamped down firmly on leaks to the press.
Paris clamped down hard, for a long time making it nearly impossible for independent stock companies to form, while London was far less restrictive.
After Nikkia Smith's layup moved Hartford into a 52-all tie with 97 seconds left, Albany scored nine straight points as its defense clamped down.
Cantonese cooking places a high premium on fresh ingredients, but in recent years, the government has clamped down on the live poultry trade through a buyout program.
Steve Ott and Cody Hodgson also beat Pittsburgh's Tomas Vokoun as the Sabres took a quick three-goal lead and then clamped down on the league's highest-scoring team.
Nikkia Smith's layup with 97 seconds left in regulation tied the score at 52-all, but the Great Danes scored the game's final nine points as their defense clamped down.
His administration has clamped down on corruption, transferred cash directly to Indonesia's poorest families, and allowed technocrats to run the economy, which continues to outperform many others in Asia.
It's this tough, new approach which has clamped down on the waste of taxpayers' money we saw in the past and helped us save hundreds of pounds for every working household.
The fee experiments exemplify some unintended consequences of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-regulation overhaul, which clamped down on certain revenue sources of banks and motivated them to seek ways to make up the difference.
On this night, it didn't matter as the Syracuse defense clamped down behind its front line of Fair, Jerami Grant and Rakeem Christmas, who combined for 44 points, six blocks, and 21 rebounds.
Facebook recently clamped down on developers' ability to automatically post items on a user's wall and customize messages for people, and ran a test that limited how some developers can send alerts to members.
In October, less than three weeks after it officially clamped down on animated avatars, Twitter bought a three-person video-sharing startup called Vine, which at that point still had yet to release a product.
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Shaken by the extent of the failure, which is still considered one of the biggest in Hollywood history, studios clamped down on the freewheeling excesses of the 1970s and a new, more conservative era was born.
Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.
When data showed that many expectant mothers at its hospitals were being induced two weeks or more early simply because it was more convenient, even though national studies hinted it is safer to wait until 39 weeks, Intermountain clamped down in 2001.
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