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• For this purpose every seducement and fallacy is sought, the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end; and the last hour steals on unperceived, while the faculties are engaged in resisting reason, and repressing the sense of the Divine disapprobation. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
• I think he finished repressing the Irish and was moving on to repress the Scots.
• The police were widely criticized for their role in repressing the protest movement.
• By buying overstock and, since 1996, repressing classic recordings, the company has firmly occupied what remains a lucrative niche.
• The invisible investigation can resolve this problem better and carry out the purpose repressing corruption.
• After so many years of repressing her own ideas about everything— weekend plans, the color of the bathroom tiles, the family car—she was excited to relinquish her role as chief accommodator and focus on her own needs. SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
• We now know that repressing anger is a contributory factor in many physical illnesses.
• Exploiting the center’s weakness, nomenklatura nationalists in the republics set out to grab federal assets in the name of nationalities whose identities they had sometimes spent decades repressing. The Return
• And as children learn that they are complicit with their nuggets, wings, ribs and cheeseburgers, they lock it down deep in denial, repressing interfamilial murder. The ABCs of Atrocity
• At the same time, we harbor a huge amount of unfelt fear about sickness, aging and death, and that fear robs us of vitality, partly because we expend so much energy avoiding and repressing it.