In the absence of democracy, Arab states therefore rely to an extraordinary degree on repression in order to stay in power.
Although social media have been a critical tool for creating political openings, opposition groups need national outlets if durable institutional reforms are to take place in societies that have endured extraordinary manipulation and repression.
The subsequent Mengistu government pledged unity and recovery through communism, and brought "Red Terror," a campaign of repression, extraordinary violence and heightened tribalism.
In the past few weeks, in an extraordinary bout of repression, his police had reportedly killed around 80 protesters and injured hundreds, in a futile attempt to quell a widespread rebellion against his oligarchical rule.
It was the normalcy of it that was so extraordinary, and that was a measure of the repression we had been living under.
At the time, Truffaut had made just three films, including his semi-autobiographical debut, Les 400 Coups, while Hitchcock was editing his 48th, his extraordinary and probably self-revealing account of sexual repression, Marnie, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.
She went to extraordinary lengths to expose human rights abuse and government repression in places where it was extremely difficult to operate, such as North Korea and Burma.
Mr. Mugabe exulted in defying external pressures, appropriated antiterrorist language to justify violent repression of his opponents and pushed through parliament three extraordinary measures: a security act, an electoral code and, most recently, a media bill.
In a gentle reproof to scholars on the left, Wood has offered evidence that "what is extraordinary about the American Revolution is not... the continual deprivation and repression of the mass of ordinary people, but rather their release and liberation".
