Sentence examples for heavy repression from inspiring English sources
In more modern times, the Basques suffered heavy repression under the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.
But I doubt that the heavy repression involved in "housewife" being the only life that an ordinary woman could respectably choose, has ever before been expressed with such darkly funny economy.
Regime security remains the highest priority: Power is concentrated in the hands of the president and his entourage, and is exercised in a specific form of authoritarianism that relies on confessional ties, selective inclusion through patronage and corruption, and heavy repression of dissent.
The Iranian revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah, who had alienated powerful religious, political and popular forces with a programme of modernization and Westernization coupled with heavy repression of dissent.
University campuses, one of the last bastions of dissent under the military regime, have also faced heavy repression.
Basra suffered even heavier repression after the failed uprising.
Finally, after 36 hours of heavy police repression, Clinton issued a statement urging "Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests or block communications including on social media sites".
But by 2011, spies, tear gas and heavy-handed repression were not enough to keep him in power.
Given what's happened at LSE recently, it's apt that Calhourn in Evicting the public: why has occupying public spaces brought such heavy-handed repression?
China only allows government-run trips, partly to stop pilgrims mixing with extremists.To discourage the othersChina's heavy-handed repression angers many Uighurs.
When more than 100 intellectuals published an open letter protesting at the heavy-handed repression of a miner's strike, he accused them of "discrediting Spain".
