Sentence examples similar to fire repression from inspiring English sources

Madagascar has a fire problem: despite a century of anti-fire repression and rhetoric, farmers and herders continue burning about half of the island's grasslands and woodlands annually.

"In this ground lay Soviet citizens, burnt in the fire of the Stalinist repression of the 1930s; Polish officers, shot on secret orders; soldiers of the Red Army, executed by the Nazis".

Internationally, Belarus was still under fire for its continuing repressions of members of the political opposition and for its apparent attempts to evict from Minsk the Advisory and Monitoring Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

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In Tibet - where at least 143 Tibetans have now lit themselves on fire to protest the suffocating repression they face under Chinese rule - the situation is going from bad to worse, with the Communist Party recently announcing its intentions to tighten control and stamp out the influence of the Dalai Lama, including plans to choose his successor.

A more recent approach to this problem is based on the principle of RNA interference (RNAi), in which expression of a small double-stranded hairpin RNA (shRNA) including sequences homologous to a target mRNA post-transcriptionally inactivates the target through translational repression and degradation (Fire et al. 1998).

Media attention on Tibet has focused on Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest political and religious repression under Chinese rule.

Last October, NATO threatened to use force to secure Milosevic’s agreement to a cease-fire and an end to the repression that was then in hand.

Severe police repression against the mostly indigenous protesters has drawn fire from the international community, and on March 17 the case was one of several heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. (See related story).

But last year, trouble flared once again when Tibetans - mainly monks and nuns - began setting themselves on fire in protest against what they see as political and religious repression.

Protests demanding an end to the absolute monarchy and persecution of the Lhotshampa beginning in summer 1990 were quashed, and repression — including torture, sexual assault, evictions and discriminatory firing — intensified.