Sentence examples for ferocious repression from inspiring English sources

Resistance to European conquest was almost invariably met by ferocious repression.

But Mr Assad's ferocious repression forced them and especially the poorer ones, who suffered most to rethink.

"The Iraqi people know we always fought for our principles and that we always fought for the good of the common man, despite the ferocious repression we faced".

Many people in Algeria are uncomfortable about the amnesty because they say it is difficult to forgive either the Islamist militants who killed so many civilians or the security forces who were responsible for ferocious repression.

AFTER four months of popular demonstrations and ferocious repression, including a bloody crackdown on the central city of Hama on Sunday, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, still refuses to step down, insisting that he can reform his regime.

Much of the paramilitary work was done by the White League, the Ku Klux Klan and other vigilantes, who destroyed interracial Reconstruction governments and helped pave the road to the ferocious repression, disenfranchisement and segregation of the Jim Crow era.

Both used ferocious internal repression.

Dissent and defiance in Homs, its residents say, have become knitted into the city's fabric, signaling to the government that however ferocious the repression, it will face a resilient opposition for the foreseeable future.

Since they erupted in mid-March, the protests have demonstrated a remarkable resilience, despite the bouts of repression, among the most ferocious in the region.

Five months after the start of a ferocious crackdown against a popular uprising — so sweeping it smacks of apartheidlike repression of Bahrain's religious majority — many fear that no one can win.

It means partying as ferocious sentiment and individual existential heroism, an idea less of this time than of the late '50s, when freedom from societal repression and the threat of annihilation were live topics in this country.