Sentence examples for As a repressive from inspiring English sources

Many once again saw the Italian state only as a repressive institution.

"The way people change lives, I do think bankers change lives as much as a repressive [inaudible] autocrat.

"The Malaysian government is using this law as a repressive measure to control dissent," said Donna Guest, the organisation's deputy Asia-Pacific director.

Angry protesters, many of them women, marched on the Capitol, bearing sarcastic signs that mocked the governor as a repressive, fatherlike figure from a bygone era.

"They would regard that as a repressive regime if it were ever imposed on them," said Martin Kramer, an expert on Islamic politics at Tel Aviv University.

Belmarsh's claustrophobic cells are at the heart of what she describes as a repressive system designed to inflict "mental distress" on those in indefinite detention.

This is consistent with considerable data showing that myc has a repressive, as well as an activating, role in transcription (for review see [61]).

However, as noted already, a repressive binding site such as this does not change the underlying dynamics of ASO, nor does it dampen exponential amplification in the absence of ASO or a similarly effective mechanism.

One way to appeal to smokers, it seems, is to encourage them to think of themselves as rebelling against a repressive orthodoxy.

The composer's sympathies are clearly with the Sicilians as they confront a repressive viceroy from — of all places — Germany who has outlawed extramarital lovemaking on pain of death.

As H3K27me3 represents a repressive mechanism for controlling the expression of genes [ 24, 36, 37], it is likely that Alu insertions into vicinities of these genes are selectively eliminated during evolution to ensure gene function in development.