1.   And their harsh crackdown on Falun Gong, the spiritual movement that staged an illegal protest earlier this year, is further testimony to their insecurity.

2.   A harsh crackdown would also risk provoking an unpredictable backlash.

3.   In the past, displays of unrest have been met with harsh crackdowns by the military.

4.   It invites a programmed account that goes from harsh crackdowns to resistance, from closet practices to comings out, from sexual shakiness to liberation.

5.   SAUDI ARABIA -- Harsh crackdowns against worrisome dissent.

6.   The background for their concern is a harsh crackdown on Islamic militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who are in league with Al Qaeda inside Afghanistan.

7.   A leading American neo-Nazi has been arrested in Denmark and police raided the homes of his followers in Germany Thursday in a harsh crackdown against right-wing extremists.

8.   A suppression of their cultural rights and the harsh military crackdown has won the PKK hundreds of thousands of sympathizers over the past decade.

9.   Blacks remember the finger-wagging Botha as the leader of a harsh crackdown on liberation groups during his eleven years in power.

10.   But Ip disputed suggestions that Hong Kong plans any laws against Falun Gong, which is already banned and subjected to a harsh crackdown in mainland China.