Sentence examples for be repressive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
Rather, it would be repressive and murderous.
"I don't think that the seminary wanted to be repressive.
Asked to clarify his statement, he replied, "There will be repressive measures taken against them".
The clerics may be repressive hardliners, but they are authentically Iranian.
By contrast, truly holistic societies — those committed to the coördinated enforcement of norms — tend to be repressive.
"We can't be repressive in the City of Love," Bruno Julliard, the first deputy mayor of Paris, blithely announced not long ago, speaking of the love locks.
The Iranian regime is repressive, but not unsophisticated in its repression.
Most are repressive and unpopular.
"When the minuet is elaborately choreographed, that is repressive tolerance.
Those boundaries are repressive enough to worry Druckerman.
"At the core of his regime, he's repressive.
