Sentence examples for apparatus of repression from inspiring English sources

Former henchmen who helped create the repugnant apparatus of repression now cloak themselves in innocence.

Underneath the CCMC is the National Security Bureau (NSB), the key apparatus of repression in wartime Syria.

Can these "Sunday strolls" have any effect on China's seemingly indomitable apparatus of repression and authoritarian rule?

The apparatus of repression was – after the ousting of Mubarak – the first target of the revolution: "The people demand the dismantling of state security".

The Kurdish-controlled territory is notable, too, for the absence of the apparatus of repression that has turned Mr. Hussein's Iraq into a terror state.

Iran is an un-free society with a keen, intermittently brutal apparatus of repression, but it's far from meeting these criteria.

The constitution has to be amended and the apparatus of state repression dismantled.

Like the Communist Party, many of the groups announcing their presence have an intimate knowledge of the apparatus of state repression.

Since the 2009 local elections in which the Kurdish organisation the Peace and Democracy party reasserted its regional dominance, the AKP has used the traditional apparatuses of Kemalist repression to hound PKK activists.

Although the "deep state", sinister and pervasive in Turkey as it plainly still is in Egypt, lingers in the apparatus of security and repression, Turkey's Islamists have won the moral authority to send the soldiers back to barracks, and have exercised it.

In the ensuing months, East Germans would dismantle the secret police apparatus once and for all, laying bare the full scope of repression exercised by an intelligence service subject to no external control.