In her decades-long fight against one of the world's most repressive military governments, Suu Kyi has rarely been dirtied by politics, acquiring an almost godlike aura among millions of supporters.
She was unshy about throwing her support behind rollicking mainstream entertainment (she was a fan of "Shampoo"), and her aversions sometimes cut against the grain of public taste (she hated almost everything by Fellini and Hitchcock, and once described "The Sound of Music" as "the single most repressive influence on artistic freedom in movies").
Some of the most repressive regimes on the planet sent officials to participate in the Paris "Free Speech" rally, and France itself began almost immediately arresting and prosecuting people for expressing unpopular, verboten political viewpoints and then undertaking a series of official censorship acts, including the blocking of websites disliked by its government.
Labor laws remain almost as repressive as they have been since the military smashed the labor unions after the 1980 coup d'état, requiring workers to register their wish to join a union with a notary public, with a resulting rate of unionization that remains well below 10 percent and workers left at the mercies of their employers.
WASHINGTON — There comes a moment in the life of almost every repressive regime when leaders — and the military forces that have long kept them in power — must make a choice from which there is usually no turning back: Change or start shooting.
The no-knock legislation struck me, and also Mr. Ehrlichman, as almost inherently repressive in tone.... Jerry Wilson [the police chief of Washington, D.C.] stated to me that he had adequate authority to enter a dwelling where there was a probable cause, and to legislate that power through the no-knock bill was unnecessary..
The no-knock legislation struck me, and also Mr. Ehrlichman, as almost inherently repressive in tone.... Jerry Wilson [the police chief of Washington, D.C.] stated to me that he had adequate authority to enter a dwelling where there was a probable cause, and to legislate that power through the no-knock bill was unnecessary...
Commonly called the North Korea of Africa, Eritrea suffers under a regime almost as repressive, fanatical, and isolationist as that in Pyongyang.
The almost general repressive effect of Snail1 on the expression of 14-3-3 14-3-3 14-3-3s is surprising and agrees with the recently proposed cancer-protecting role ofamilyain of these proteins [33], [34].
When u chh = m chh = l exon = − u cg < 0, gene body CG methylation is almost purely repressive.
