Sentence examples for blatant repression from inspiring English sources
Eager to avoid the international condemnation that can accompany blatant repression, those governments are using methods like tax penalties, fines and restricting access to newsprint.
Ulitskaya may be the only person who lived through the previous period of blatant repression as an active reader and has entered the current one as a professional writer.
Nancy Wade of MoveOn.org also blasted the mayor's newly proposed fines, via a mass e-mail, as "blatant repression of the right of the 99% to petition their governments for redress of grievances -- the Bill of Rights, First Amendment," even though he claims the changes are being made out of concerns for safety.
Still, the hypocrisy of sexual repression is blatant in historic underwear, which at once prudishly hid the female body while exaggerating its sexual traits: breasts hiked up, hips widened, butt enlarged.
Now that the lid has blown off the pressure cooker, repression may take more blatant and more violent forms.
ISTANBUL — In his most blatant criticism yet of Syria's political repression, the prime minister of Turkey said for the first time on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should resign, raising the pressure on Mr. Assad from a country that Syria had once counted as its friendliest neighbor and economic partner.
"We laugh at or make fun of such blatant hypocrisy, but in a real way, these people may often themselves be victims of repression and experience exaggerated feelings of threat," Ryan said.
"Blatant ballot-stuffing".
