11.   Recent crackdowns on democratic activists have been one of many factors to anger U.S. legislators in recent months.

12.   The mob has been battered both by a weak economy and by a recent crackdown on some aspects of organized crime by the police and community groups.

13.   The most recent crackdown, which began in October, is not the first.

14.   The recent crackdown began after the government ousted Megawati Sukarnoputri from the leadership of the authorized opposition party.

15.   The recent no-nonsense crackdown follows a number of promised crackdowns that were either quickly abandoned or whose fines were negligible and thus ineffectual.

16.   They pointed to the recent crackdown in China on the Falun Gong religious sect to make their point.

17.   Palestinian police fired in the air Wednesday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators demanding the release of Islamic militants jailed in a recent crackdown.

18.   A group of students continued its protest Thursday against recent crackdowns on unlicensed publications and demanded the release of four detained journalists.

19.   A human rights lawyer on Saturday accused the government of targeting innocent foreigners in a recent crackdown on terrorism.

20.   A recent crackdown on theologians underlined that John Paul saw no room for debate over such issues as the ban on women becoming priests.