Sentence examples for economic repression from inspiring English sources

"Subversion is subliminal, a state of mind, and for this reason," he argues, "the suppression of free speech is an expression of the way in which people are ground down economically, and the repression of humour is part of that economic repression".

The economic repression of the masses institutionalized".

It's probably not just economic repression, either.

In the many-peopled Ethiopian empire now, as in the Soviet one then, economic repression has inspired rebellion.

In contrast to the rising of 1381, this was not a peasant movement; Cade's followers included many gentry, whose complaints were mainly about lack of government rather than economic repression.

Until people realise there can be no real freedom until they have economic freedom, financial and economic repression will continue to develop chaining them to the wheel as tightly as any iron fetter.

Corruption, economic mismanagement, repression and instability will proliferate.

His decades in office have been marked by economic decline, repression of dissent, vote-rigging and mass unemployment and emigration.

In its second half, the novel's account of the three friends jumps forward 20 years, to the late 1990s, by which time Ignacio, a successful lawyer with his own firm, feels that "the country had completely changed": he equates his own youthful "delinquency" with "the last throes of the economic misery, repression and lack of liberties of the Franco years".

On the surface, despite economic collapse, repression and shrinking average life-expectancy, Zimbabwe can still seem attractive.Dictatorships are supposed to be cold, drab and miserable, where people with rounded shoulders dare not say a word out of turn North Korea in the rain; Soviet Russia in the winter.

Economic recession and political repression combined to depress trade-union activity until 1912.