Sentence examples for crushing repression from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Chechen civilians have been subjected to crushing repression.

Some words spoken there have great weight because they were uttered in the teeth of the most crushing repression.

Hosni Mubarak during a visit to Ethiopia in June 1995, provoked a crushing repression of the group inside Egypt, forcing the group to find targets abroad.

But they are missing an essential point: the crushing repression of Eritrea's citizens, especially its youth, is as much a driver of the outflow of people as the lack of economic prospects.

This surreal scene in which activists gather at a cafe with high-speed Internet to a backdrop of tear gas illustrates the contradictions of Bahrain — a cosmopolitan, successful banking center with a well-educated population that is facing crushing repression and sectarian tension.

Pictures such as 1987's Maurice, 1998's Wilde, 2005's Brokeback Mountain, 2009's A Single Man or this year's The Imitation Game, meanwhile, invite us to empathise with the crushing social repression under which their gay protagonists labour even as they imply the easing of such burdens in recent years.

But the craving for authenticity should also be understood as a response to centuries of soul-crushing repression, both endogenous and exogenous.

It could only be crushed by repression on a scale unknown even in Chile or in Uruguay, or by seeking some kind of political accommodation.

The Cuban president, Raúl Castro, has crushed dissent and continued repression in the country since taking over from his brother Fidel, according to a Human Rights Watch report published today.

Then it was crushed by state repression so fierce that it seems bound to radicalize more people.

The Socialist Party was formally absorbed by the Bulgarian Communist Party in August 1948, and socialists who remained in opposition were crushed by police repression.