Sentence examples for in a repressive from inspiring English sources

When you live in a repressive country, apparently.

The Wiggins grew up in a repressive household in New Hampshire.

What effect might this concert have on an audience in a repressive society?

Nothing raises more fear in a repressive regime than challenges to the control of information.

"The I.O.C. seems oblivious to the fact that they're holding the Games in a repressive environment," he said.

Individual pieces were lovely, but Adrover's models looked as if they were trapped in a repressive culture.

Only in a repressive country like Cuba would Mr. Gross's efforts be characterized as a threat to the state.

In Lucialima (1983; "Lemon Verbena") she explored with great subtlety the condition of women in a repressive society.

Nor do I have any faith in a repressive regime whose nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of Hezbollah killers belies its supposed interest in resuming contact with the West.

Melchior and his classmates are burning up with hormones, but in a repressive society that insists on ignorance over truth, sex is never explained.

"These southern election campaigns reflect how, in a repressive but weak state, the problem isn't just the ways in which the government prevents political freedom," Hessler writes.