How To Use Repressing In A Sentence
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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
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I think he finished repressing the Irish and was moving on to repress the Scots.
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The police were widely criticized for their role in repressing the protest movement.
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By buying overstock and, since 1996, repressing classic recordings, the company has firmly occupied what remains a lucrative niche.
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The invisible investigation can resolve this problem better and carry out the purpose repressing corruption.
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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
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We now know that repressing anger is a contributory factor in many physical illnesses.
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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
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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
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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.
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Another demonstration was held in Mashhad where protesters asked security forces to support them [instead of repressing].
Global Voices in English » Iran: Storm of protest after election
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The spirit of conciliation and justice, which has happily influenced the action of leading English and French Canadian statesmen in the administration of public affairs, has been so far successful in repressing the spirit of passion and demagogism which has exhibited itself at certain political crises, and in bringing the two nationalities into harmony with each other.
Canada
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Sanitized and allegedly ‘Oedipal free,’ Branagh's Hamlet avoids any representations of non-normative sexual desire, repressing the sexualized maternal body with a vengeance.
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As part landscape painting, part portraiture, the maps evoke a topography fixed forever in time, thus repressing the chaotic historical circumstances of Ireland during the years of the map's production from 1826 to 1852.
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The police were widely criticized for their role in repressing the protest movement.
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We now know that repressing anger is a contributory factor in many physical illnesses.
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Equally disheartening is the fact that the Iranian authorities are repressing women in a far more dangerous and direct way than passing draconian "family protection" laws: dozens, if not hundreds of women's rights activists have been personally targeted for arrest or extralegal attacks.
Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback
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Neither of us cries but we are obviously repressing deep emotions, and peo-ple, sensing this, avert their gaze.
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Certain genres have traditionally been conceived as male territory, thereby limiting or repressing the expression of female writers.
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If we can stay with it, neither acting it out nor repressing it, it wakes us up.
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Neither of us cries but we are obviously repressing deep emotions, and peo-ple, sensing this, avert their gaze.
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Such interest, however, does not provide a morally satisfactory justification for violently repressing the Pullman strike.
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`They found a couple of strays," Laura Hardy said, repressing a smile.
THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
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In a country where the military, along with all other uniformed branches, is actively employed in brutally repressing popular protest, the populace cheers them.
Bread and circuses
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Mightn't a fair bit of the action be in heterogeneous technologies for repressing extreme preferences?
Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The ranks snapped to attention before the princes with a silence that gave the effect not of noiselessness but of waiting, of repressing, a great noise to come.
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By repressing female sexual expression in dharmic structures, the patriarchy limits female participation at socio-political and cultural levels.
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The introduction of the Indian mongoos, or _mangouste_ (ichneumon), proved futile as a means of repressing the evil.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The latter of which resonated from Stephanie; in glassy eyes she stood repressing the emotion.
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In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature.
God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
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This is similar to the practice of China government in repressing human rights activist Tan Zuoren, who disclosed the bean dreg school building construction problem in the Sichuan earthquake, with the charge of inciting sedition.
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: A 10-dollar coin to pledge against political harassment
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Only occasionally does he give vent to some of the emotions he has spent the past two years repressing.
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On the other hand, we have to consider the interest of society at large in finding our wrongdoers and repressing crime.
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The police were widely criticized for their role in repressing the protest movement.
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From boyhood, he learned to keep his feelings to himself, repressing memories of his father and of the emotional impact of early orphanhood.
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The police were widely criticized for their role in repressing the protest movement.
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‘I think Brigitte's been more successful in repressing her body, and repressing its desires, than Ginger was,’ says Perkins.
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the process of repressing gene transcription
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Which, sire, is matier that must nedes commove and stire the hartes of al good christen princes and people to helpe and put their handes with effecte to reformacion thereof, and the repressing of such tirannous demenour.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
