Sentence examples for a means of repression from inspiring English sources

It belongs to a new generation for whom technology — the Internet and social media — is a powerful tool in the hands of citizens, not a means of repression.

While more instances are likely yet to be identified, this handful of yeast genes has incorporated intergenic transcription into their regulatory programs and generally appears to use it as a means of repression.

One means of repression is through promoter methylation [ 27, 28], and the LKB1 promoter has been reported to be hypermethylated in colorectal carcinomas and testicular tumors, although out of 51 cancer cell lines analyzed in vitro, only one cervical carcinoma and three colorectal cell lines were methylated at the LKB1 locus, also corresponding to loss of expression [ 27].

Gene regulation – some toxins act as a means of general repression of gene expression while others are more specific.

The report, entitled "Generation Jail," said Egypt's tough antiprotest law was wielded as a means of mass repression.

These findings suggest that ANP32A recruitment to promoters may likewise provide histone chaperone activity as a means of transcriptional repression.

We propose that phosphorylation is a means of abating Gro-mediated repression, allowing repression that is CtBP-dependent (by Brk, Su(H) and/or other repressors) to dominate.

They are old communists who talk about democracy when they are abroad but use a different language at home.At least one of Mr Nazarbaev's aides has said publicly that the president will not be able to cope with an increasingly broad-based opposition by means of repression alone; some compromise will be needed if the country is to remain united and stable.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague will make a major speech in Munich, warning that cyberspace has "created new means of repression for undemocratic governments", and raised new fears of a "cyberwar".

According to author Roy Medvedev, who wrote an early analysis of Khrushchev's years in power, "political terror as an everyday method of government was replaced under Khrushchev by administrative means of repression".

It should also insist on a rapid response to the long-standing demand to end the military trials for civilians and the application of emergency law, which makes those trials and other means of repression possible.