They've been living in a very repressive atmosphere and under a repressive regime for so long.
The charges against Huseynov represent a renewed assault on free expression in an already repressive atmosphere, the PEN Club of America said.
KAMPALA, Uganda — Rwandan authorities on Friday arrested an American lawyer who is representing a leading Rwandan opposition figure, the latest sign of an increasingly repressive atmosphere there.
Despite this repressive atmosphere, an increasing number of Egyptians, disillusioned with Nasser's socialist, secular government, were turning to the mosque for political answers.
Opposition actors argue that grassroots energy still exists, even if the repressive atmosphere post-2009 preventhe the formation of an organised movement.
Yet the story works very well in the theatre – a medium perhaps even better suited to evoking the swelteringly repressive atmosphere of the Old South and the righteous fury at the treatment of farm labourer Tom Robinson.
The closing shot of a disturbing family photo suggests that Deneuve's character might have been the victim of such unhealthy advances as a child, but the movie's real villain is the repressive atmosphere that pervades every scene, filling innocuous interactions with salacious dread.
Largely because of Hungary's repressive atmosphere, Mr. Kertesz didn't publish his first novel, "Fateless," until 1975.
He is a big, ironic, bold spirit, whose jolly nature seemed perversely at odds with the grimly repressive atmosphere inside that country.
When the physical conditions are so hostile, and you can't breathe because of the repressive atmosphere around you, this kind of fear grows inside you.
Petzold, having established this repressive atmosphere early in the film, later complicates the pros and cons of living in the East.
