Sentence examples for harsh repressive from inspiring English sources

In the aftermath of the Commune, the government took harsh repressive action: about 38,000 were arrested and more than 7,000 were deported.

The chief abbot and spiritual leader-in-exile of a Tibetan monastery at the epicenter of a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule spoke out forcefully in New York on Wednesday, detailing what he called new and harsh repressive measures taken against the monks at the monastery since the immolations started in March.

In general, conditions were not especially harsh or repressive, and "tickets of leave" and pardons provided relatively quick routes to freedom.

Sixtus swiftly restored peace and safety by harsh and repressive means, but his extreme measures in dealing with bandits created many enemies.

All of these countries have either introduced or consolidated electoral democracy over the past 25 years, emerging from unrepresentative one-party politics or harsh and repressive military rule.

"While some, even in the current U.S. administration, were appeasing the Taliban at the time when even bin Laden was harbored by them, we resolutely opposed their harsh and repressive policy against the Afghan people and their harboring terrorists on Afghan soil from the beginning," the letter said.

In a statement, representatives said they met with hotel executives and "expressed very clearly that we cannot condone or tolerate these harsh and repressive laws".

But the Israeli response which has been to bring down even more harsh and repressive measures on an already much violated captive people is no solution.

The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy, exercising authority with harsh and often repressive controls.

Even many leading Republicans don't want to discuss the classic cultural issues that defined them for so long, recognizing them as toxic to their future, realizing that the younger generations simply don't believe in the harsh institutions and repressive dogmas of yore.

Reports of torture in detention emerged and even harsher state-sponsored repressive policies and acts were justified in the name of state security.