How To Use Repressive In A Sentence

The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
This only ends up securing unequal, repressive, and intolerant societies.
In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
Conversely, a claim of a right to secede from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate.

Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of repressive political correctness.
‘All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life,’ he claims.
They also want all prisoners detained during the revolution to be released and for the repressive emergency law to be repealed. Times, Sunday Times
The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
Tyrannical and repressive non-colonial regimes might be supported if they could be presented as allies against Communism, but it was not always possible to go on making excuses for them.
In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
‘All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life,’ he claims.
The United States fought a bloody and repressive war to prevent Filipino independence, and participated in the military operations against the Boxers in China during the summer of 1900.
Here, when there is cooperativity and the repressive activities of u and v are balanced the null clines, being sigmoids, intersect three times.
The repressive measures of the government drive the disciples of the new philosophy to conspirative methods. Anarchism and Other Essays
It is the music that is banned by repressive regimes. The Tribes Triumphant
The regime nonetheless supported almost all the uprisings against repressive regimes in the region, and decried the use of force against them. Times, Sunday Times
And while misemploying the police in its repressive measures, the crime rates for Malaysia have been allowed to go through the roof.
How else could one account for the astonishingly abrupt shift in the American horror film from the progressive, exploratory, often radical late '60s-'70s to the reactionary and repressive '80s?
The government's response was to use the Freikorps and other repressive means to assert its authority.
Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism.
Such nonsense could be spoken only by those who have not suffered under repressive regimes. Somewhere East of Life
Following a visit to San Salvador in 1973 she wrote Salvador, describing the repressive political regime.
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Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with repressive but anti-Soviet regimes.
In fact, while dismantling public and social services and gutting environmental regulations, the Tories have moved to centralize power in the hands of the provincial government and increase the repressive powers of the state.
A military coup was carried out, and a repressive government was placed in power.
On the other hand, it calls for repressive means to combat serious, organized crime. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Across the Arab world supposedly passive and subservient peoples were rising against other repressive regimes. Times, Sunday Times
This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
He has not even pushed Congress to scrap the most repressive, loathful and patently unconstitutional features of the Bush's anti-terrorist policies. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Huge Stretch
The theatre became world-famous for staging protest theatre throughout the repressive apartheid years.
The region is a virtual patchwork of repressive rules and restrictions -- variously dubbed national-security laws, antisubversive laws or internal-security acts -- which give leaders wide powers to tighten the screws in the service of "stability and order. Opinion: Political Freedom's Price
Yet a repressive government has insulation from domestic discontent. Times, Sunday Times
We should also be targeting the source of the problem: repressive governments which persecute their own citizens.
One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of repressive, patriarchal social conditioning.
But they believe the risks of noninvolvement, losing the Afghan democracy, having the Taliban come back in and institute the most repressive government in modern history against women and little girls, giving free reign to the Afghan -- Al Qaeda, all over Afghanistan -- those risks are far greater. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009
They also want all prisoners detained during the revolution to be released and for the repressive emergency law to be repealed. Times, Sunday Times
For example, despite his disagreements with the repressive policy of the Church of England toward evangelical preachers like himself, Bunyan did not follow Roger Williams in refusing all fellowship with conformists.
They also want all prisoners detained during the revolution to be released and for the repressive emergency law to be repealed. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Chávez has shown some fondness for a repressive political system like Cuba's current gerontal oligarchy. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
The artists often reference repressive governments. Times, Sunday Times
He took the ratio between repressive law and restitutive law as an index of the type of solidarity of the society.
By condemning the disorderly symptoms of social conflict and neglecting its causes, the media implicitly endorse further repressive measures.
He has also criticized the president for not being tough enough on what he calls the repressive regimes in Iran and Syria. Former Senator Rick Santorum Joins US Republican Presidential Field
Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation. Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama
It doesn't seem to occur to their proponents that such a strengthening of the state's repressive apparatus, although superficially aimed at the neo-fascists, ultimately undermines democracy itself.
The regime nonetheless supported almost all the uprisings against repressive regimes in the region, and decried the use of force against them. Times, Sunday Times
A defiant voice in the midst of a repressive era, she was mischaracterized as a madwoman and even a witch. The Fiery Spirit Of Carmen Mondragon
There are many examples of regimes every bit as repressive as Iraq's falling to popular revolt.
Here, too, the army for most of its history has been the controlling element in repressive government. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
Accounting for responsibility by invoking a third party repositions both Maori and tauiwi as victims of repressive colonial rule.
But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another.
Examples of the oppressive and repressive treatment of women abound.
The Tokugawa brought peace and stability to the country, but at the costs of a repressive political style.
Fascist regimes invariably implemented repressive measures against women.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority.
After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
They are regressive, repressive individuals.
It said much for the dichotomic nature of human civilization that Earth, the capital planet, was a Wheel world-one where the Grand Wheel's influence was strong, unchecked by the Legitimacy's repressive efforts. The Grand Wheel
It is not the demand for consumer choice that threatens to topple repressive theocracies. Times, Sunday Times
In any case, when we look at women's resistance to government pressure, I think we should avoid the temptation to turn them into pure political subversives critiquing a repressive government.
Why did equalitarian experiments on the Earth generate repressive regimes?
What's to prevent additional development assistance from being wasted by repressive, inefficient states?
Now that Wisconsin's governor has given the Guard its marching orders, we can discern a new pattern of global repressive solidarity emerging - from the chastened pharaoh of the Middle East to the cheese-head pharaoh of the Middle West. The Media Consortium: Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests
The light in this lounge is a horrible, repressive, tiring light. ... can't even come up with a witty title.
It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a repressive political system.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a repressive mercantilist economic policy regime.
South Africa's return to the Commonwealth was a highspot for the group in 1994, but opposing repressive administrations among West ANC Daily News Briefing
In some countries, most notably Venezuela, this vintage left-wing, anti-American fervor is not small, but is predominant, which is what has led that country to be under the repressive thumb of Fidel Castro-copy Hugo Chavez, whose primary interest in attending this Latin American regional summit seems to be to lure Bush and the U.S. into some sort of game of childish taunts rather than doing something constructive to aid his impoverished, unstable country. The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush
It was not the mythical, moral (but in reality often cruelly repressive and deceitful) 1950s but rather the supposedly lamentable late 1960s that this film was concerned with.
The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
So be it, if it's bought for the dinner party conversation at the home of an oligarch in a repressive country. Times, Sunday Times
California promises him a little breathing room and the chance to live in a slightly less repressive society. Christianity Today
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, OPPOSITION LEADER: The government is imposed what I would call -- some people try to say it is a repressive lancelet. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2002
The harbinger is the situation in Mexico, where the cartels are mounting armed attacks on officials, driving them to take repressive measures that are building resentment among ordinary citizens, many of whom are coming to see police and military as more of a threat than the cartelistas. The Volokh Conspiracy » If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably a Federal Criminal:
Illegal immigrants forced to flee their country due to what they call the repressive regime of this man, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2007
Placing less blame on Alice than she does on the social circumstances inspiring her heroine's turn to the bottle, Austen here looks at excessive appetites less as the result of an intractable will, than as the introjection of external pressures and repressive social codes. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
Le premier dramatise le récit pour souligner l'obstination de l'enfant et retracer le développement de la jeune femme tandis que le second adopte une approche hollywoodienne classique, utilisant le noir et blanc pour évoquer la fragilité de l'enfant et de la femme dans une structure sociale répressive soumise BrontëBlog
This repressive law takes gay rights back to the dark ages.
In 1953 a relatively democratic and secular regime was overthrown by a CIA backed coup, leading to the repressive absolute rule by the Shah.
As an unreformed Pan-Africanist, I also believe that Africans are not prisoners to be kept behind tribal walls, ethnic enclaves, Ivorite, kilils, Bantustans, apartheid or whatever divisive and repressive ideology is manufactured by dictators, but free men and women who are captains of their destines in one un-walled Africa that belongs to all equally. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa
We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its promises on the single currency? and in the end did more damage to the The Guardian World News
From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state.
I grew up in those supposedly halcyon days before World War II, and what I mainly remember was the repressive prudery in all matters sexual.
This system was subverted by his brother John when he succeeded to the throne in 1199, and extraordinarily repressive measures were set in motion to extort money from them.
Black feminists have critiqued its repressive gender politics while not always recognizing that the sexual and racial politics of black nationalism are as deeply flawed as those of Eurocentric nationalism.
They ask, rather, that we open our eyes to the realities of a racialized and repressive social order whose institutions wage war against many young people.
The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected.
The baron ought to be repellent, but he quickly gathers the audience on his side, as an unlikely agent for freedom in a repressive, ossified society.
However, relative peace brought by colonialism, and repressive colonial policies of recruitment and taxation encouraged people to spread out in the hinterland so as not to be found by colonial authorities.
All it has accomplished is to help secure Fidel Castro in power (like Ho Chi Minh, another nationalist liberator that we turned into a communist by supporting a criminally repressive regime for the sake of big business). U.S. lawmaker calls for lifting of Cuba travel ban
One, for example, is a "birdcage" in the shape of Cuba that clearly expresses the anger Cuban people feel about being caged in by a repressive government. Andy Schupak: Letter from Cuba
Bacic lived through the repressive Pinochet regime in Chile, and through her work with the truth commissions that have been operating in that country she has come in contact with innumerable survivors of torture.
Illegal immigrants forced to flee their country due to what they call the repressive regime of this man, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2007
Many of them prefer to work anonymously, especially those who work on controversial issues or who live in countries with repressive governments '. Times, Sunday Times
And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.
Such is the repressive power of the educational establishment and its mindset. Times, Sunday Times
People are fed up with regimes that are repressive and have failed to deliver prosperity.
The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness.
Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, repressive West.
It was a repressive occurrence and terribly unbefitting of a class so powerful, articulate and determined as that of Castlemont High, 2001.
In 1975 I became disillusioned with Marxism and became an anarchist (thanks to Kuwasi Balagoon) due to the inactiveness and ineffectiveness of Marxism in our communities along with repressive bureaucracy that comes with Marxism. Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
As in Wright's novel, in Chicano urban texts the nihilist renounces institutions and ideologies which are perceived to maintain a repressive social and racial order.
The US has long held out a promise of freedom to people living half-suffocated lives in repressive societies.
McCain in an angry and abusive man, a warmonger, a patriarch, a defender of privilege, an excuser of torture, and an advocate of a repressive and intolerant society. View images tagged “Complete Falsehoods” …
They're all exiles, fleeing what they call a repressive regime determined to stay in power at any cost. CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2007
The country's military dictatorship is a repressive, democracy-crushing, bloodthirsty, murderous bunch of thugs.
He says the elections held by what he calls the repressive regime are absolutely unfair and not free. Burma Voting Ends Amid Growing Criticism
The first article was about the role of the Oedipal process in the generation of guilt and the repressive denial of the memory of murder.
Somehow they were able to see from point A, where they stood -- corseted, ornamental, legally nonpersons -- to point C, the "regenerated" world Gage predicted, in which all repressive institutions would be destroyed. Draw mohammed day.
I'd hate to appear imbalanced (or "pluralistically-challenged" or "diversity-stunted" or whatever the term might be), so now I turn to a recent column, "Catholicism Does't Have to Be Repressive," written by Maggie Carlson, a senior at Webster University (in the Saint Louis area). Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority.
The more the movement splits and disorganises the repressive state apparatuses, the easier it would be for the new popular power to sweep them aside and take control of society.
We've gone from the repressive culture of the Victorian era, through the enforced civility of the 40's and 50's, past the wild rebellion of the 60's and 70's, right up to the Pit Bull Throat-Ripping Mentality of the 2000's... prompting the worst of us to regress to a certain and deeply unfortunate state of grunting Neanderthalism. Lorraine Devon Wilke: I Know You Are but What Am I?! The Snark Epidemic in Modern Media Discourse
The protesters demand an end what they describe as a repressive, incompetent and corrupt regime that has failed to improve the lives of ordinary people while restricting civil liberties and violating human rights. Latimes.com - News
Some boroughs and counties are quite repressive and others are very open.
As the story proceeds, the stirring of these erotic impulses in the midst of a society governed by a strict, repressive code of honor creates unpredictable complications.
Crime management is now provided by repressive police forces in the cities and towns and a gendarmerie in the countryside and a national guard in remote areas.
When I think of assbackwards, repressive, corrupt, authoritarian countries the first thing that comes to my mind is the republican party. Think Progress » Issa Says Democratically Elected Democratic Congress Is ‘Exactly The Same’ As Kazakhstan’s Dictatorship
Human Rights Watch has denounced his regime as one of the most repressive in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Increasingly repressive measures to crush the rebellion have resulted in a death toll of 1,100 guerrillas, police and civilians over the past four years.
This administration started repressive actions against taggers, but with little success.
There is no textual evidence to suggest that Jesus was concerned to see the repressive tax system changed, or that he urged the tax-collectors to revolt against it.
This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
An interesting phenomenon raised by more than one author is the way that gender subversion, with women striking back at repressive aspects of patriarchy, can go hand in hand with genre subversion.
The stories have a raw texture that lays bare the rather bleak emotional life of her repressed, and repressive environment.
Punk rock was many things, but it was also a howl of protest against a repressive, arteriosclerotic society ripe for renovation. Too many books? Far too few, more like
The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected.
The people are held down by a repressive regime.
His effort to reform his country 's extremely repressive political system was initially cautious and reluctant. Times, Sunday Times
The fight for the dissolution of repressive bodies and the release of political prisoners was forever linked with the demand for recognition of Basque sovereignty.
By the time of the Revolution, the standing army had become a symbol of repressive authority and arbitrary rule.
The story limns the unforgiving and often repressive claims of memory and family tradition in unresolved discord.
Our men arrive at an unpropitious moment, just as Robert Mugabe drives a new set of repressive laws through his parliament and puts his foot on the necks of human rights organisations.
A brutal military junta rules Burma, while repressive Communist regimes control Laos and Vietnam.
Buddhism does have a strong sexual ethic, but not a repressive one.
Others say the West has forced the government to reinstate the repressive apparatus used by the previous regime to quash opposition.
Just as thirty years before, here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women's demands.
The government has increasingly resorted to repressive measures.
Millions were given to police forces in repressive countries where crime and corruption then rose. Times, Sunday Times
There is no one more anticonstitutional, more antilaw, more antiparliamentarian, more repressive, more violent, and more criminal than the fascist. [applause] RALLY IN SANTIAGO
values rigidify into repressive dogma
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally repressive military dictatorship.
Under the company 's new policy this could be blocked by a repressive regime. Times, Sunday Times
Human Rights Watch has denounced his regime as one of the most repressive in the world. Times, Sunday Times
But it's nonetheless true that right at the moment, dependence on oil is forcing the West to funnel money to repressive regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere.
This reactionary perspective has handed successive governments an opportunity to develop anti-democratic repressive measures.
As we awake from the dreary dream of entryism, we can start to see that what kept us slumbering in the last twenty five years was indeed a programme of controlled, if not quite repressive, desublimation.
But by using hyperbole and muddling the difference between repressive regimes and the imperfections of democracy, Amnesty's spokesmen put its authority at risk.
Again, I would strongly disagree with that kind of conduct of American national security policy, particularly since it would legitimize Raul Castro in the position that he's trying to solidify, which is a furtherance of an oppressive, repressive regime, which has caused the people of Cuba to suffer in every imaginable way, including economically for many, many years. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2008
By adopting this approach, President Obama would be carrying out his inaugural offer to repressive regimes of extending a hand - but only to those willing to "unclench" their fists. Jerry Fowler: President Obama Must Address Sudan at the UN General Assembly
There is nothing, there is no one more anticonstitutional, more antilegal, more antiparliamentary, more repressive, more violent and more criminal than the fascists. 13TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CDR
The people are held down by a vicious and repressive military regime.
But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another.
We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its promises on the single currency? and in the end did more damage to the Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
The new legislation could, said commentators, enshrine the most repressive aspects of martial law in the penal code.
He had not lifted the repressive emergency laws that he had used to maintain his regime in power for 30 years. Times, Sunday Times
The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals.
Human Rights Watch has denounced his regime as one of the most repressive in the world. Times, Sunday Times
And finally, does authoritativeness necessarily imply repressive authority?
But then, so do many state-subsidised artists in far less repressive countries. Times, Sunday Times
He says that I am repressive, intolerant, populist, insular, sloppy, and ignorant.
This is evident not only in the imposition of an alien, Eurocentric repressive moral code, but also in acts of violence and sexual exploitation.
The dream of creating a culturally renewed Ireland was replaced by a raft of repressive cultural and social legislation that followed the most reactionary example of Catholic social doctrine.
Repressive military governments dominated by members of the majority Burman ethnic group have ruled the ethnically Burman central regions and some ethnic-minority areas continuously since 1962, when a coup led by General Ne Win overthrew an elected civilian government .... The Case for Inhumane Intervention
It should stop propping up right-wing repressive regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying.
By 1926, all vestiges of democracy had been wiped out through repressive laws and brutal violence. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its promises on the single currency - and in the end did more damage to the Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
The guaranteed absence of external intervention left the regime a free hand to continue its repressive domestic policies.
Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism.
Being the unofficial public relations representative for one of the world's most repressive regimes is about as demanding as it gets. Times, Sunday Times
The latest move to establish regional offices has created fears of a possible return to repressive and abusive practices.
The country is drifting dangerously towards aggressive military adventurism and the establishment of a repressive national-security state.
It proved to be far more menacing to repressive self-rule in the American republic than it was to social order under the king. A Renegade History of the United States
Across the Arab world supposedly passive and subservient peoples were rising against other repressive regimes. Times, Sunday Times
Thousands had died on the battlefields, in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges.
These groups, despite the brutal opposition of the state, continue to struggle against corrupt and repressive regimes.
Irrepressible woman takes on repressive system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
They were expelled from the postwar coalition government, subjected to frenzied propaganda Pope Pius XI declared that voting communist would condemn one to eternal damnation, and held responsible for repressive acts in the USSR which they felt compelled to justify. The Tailor of Ulm: A Possible History of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Lucio Magri – review
Unlike insurrectionists who resist government because it is repressive, vigilantes ‘take arms to do the government's work because the authorities are not repressive enough.’
Finding the strict regime unnecessarily repressive on the kids, he drafts them into a choir, much to the chagrin of the tyrannical head teacher.
BINDRA: The international community is appealing to the king and his forces to stop what they call repressive measures. CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2006
On the other hand, it calls for repressive means to combat serious, organized crime. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Real life is significant in a repressively dull way; just a bunch of nobodies trying to make each other believe the planet actually cares what they're doing.
If I were trapped in repressive, anti-literate society in which books were banned, I think my best bet for memorisation ought to be Machiavelli's The Prince, the better to wile my way to the top.
Recurrent scenarios in demotic songs convey the repressive behavioural codes governing gender relations, the trauma of forced/arranged marriages, as well as the abduction of women by obsessed admirers. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
By rejecting ‘the repressive hypothesis' Foucault encourages us to examine the incidence, resourcefulness, and polyvalence of power in fields previously regarded as free from its operation.
Repressive regimes adopt various time-worn means to contain internal dissent. Times, Sunday Times
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority.
It thereby assists the maintenance of domestic capitalist interests and elaborates its repressive apparatuses.
the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention
The celebrated thought leader, Amartya Sen argued that development requires the removal of sources of "unfreedom" - poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities, as well as systemic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities and intolerance or overactivity of repressive states. My Sinchew -
KOINANGE: These days life is a lesson in survival for Zimbabwe exiles like Nkululelo, illegal immigrants forced to flee their country due to what they call the repressive regime of this man, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2007
The telegrams tell a different story of intimate and co-dependent relationships with unpleasant and repressive regimes in Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat.
These survivors are deformed, regressive, bestial, and held in check by a repressive dictatorship that combines the authority of church and state.

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