The phrase "a form of repression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or way in which control or suppression is exercised over individuals or groups.
Example: "The government implemented a form of repression to silence dissent and maintain control over the population."
Alternatives: "a type of suppression" or "a method of control".
One boyfriend was all I could handle, all I wanted to handle, really, and while I found this to be perfectly natural, my friends saw it as a form of repression and came to view me as something of a puritan.
While the young Syrian activists who use the Web to organize and document antiregime demonstrations across the country are once again counting the cost, in lives, of continuing to pour into the streets, their counterparts in Iran, who helped to pave the way for such protests, are living with a form of repression that is less violent but in some ways far more efficient and demoralizing.
Critical inattention, then, is a form of collective repression.
They call it a form of financial repression.
His dislike of the abstract art produced after the war, he once argued, was that it was really a form of convenient repression.
In this world, children fight to the death in ritual games — a form of both repression and entertainment in the country of Panem.
The first wave of student protests against the coalition was met with police batons and kettles, a form of state repression condemned by the UN as "detrimental to the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly".
Furthermore, he argues that the "hospitality" of the scheme is highly conditional and can be viewed as a form of "compassionate repression", with the UNHCR, the Home Office and local authorities all involved in "sorting, decision, and consideration over which individuals are the 'exceptional cases'", to the exclusion of others.
The "your money" mantra is not a source of freedom – it's a stealthy form of repression and a leech on productivity.
Their owners deny this, saying the campaign is a new form of repression of the Kurds.
In this context, it's all the more depressing to find highly regarded American universities giving in to the notion that racial justice requires a new form of repression.
