Sentence examples for a repressive force from inspiring English sources

Hamas comes across as a repressive force, arrogant and unaccountable, but neither unfathomable nor monstrous.

The violence during the referendum gave many in the region the impression that the national police, dispatched from across the country, were becoming a repressive force.

34 has her say" (April 26): Thomas Friedman is wrong in his implication that the Egyptian military has mysteriously turned from a pro-democracy agent during the Arab Spring to a repressive force today.

The church was viewed as a common ally of the state and as a repressive force in and of itself".

However, General Otis recommended that for a time a large repressive force be retained, and on April 1, 1900, there were nearly 65,000 soldiers in the islands.

European history professor Carl Landauer, in his book European Socialism argued that social anarchism is unrealistic and that government is a "lesser evil" than a society without "repressive force".

The Kanes' ideological beliefs – which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) believes are shared by "well into the tens of thousands" of Americans – put them under the broad umbrella of the "Patriot" movement, a spectrum of groups who believe the US government has become a totalitarian and repressive force.

In the 1960s, the Catholic church still loomed large in the secular as well as Protestant imagination as an authoritarian and repressive force, demanding obedience from states and individuals, and interfering in everything from library books to birth control.

Davies does more than film Dickinson's life; he creates a world that is, above all, her inner world, confined to the increasingly narrow circles of her activity that, as they contract, raise the repressive force on her repressed emotional life and raise the heat on the emotions that she presses into her brief, curt, only seemingly cool verses.

The fall of the Wall was magical because it signaled the peaceful triumph of people's power over a regime that commanded enormous repressive force.

That same day, the United States Embassy gloomily concluded that "many responsible Mexicans" now believed "that repressive force will be an inevitable part of the Mexican political system for some time to come".