Sentence examples for increase repression from inspiring English sources

The state's strategy was to cause mayhem in order to increase repression of it.

We should also be debating how to stop Turkey's government using the weekend's events as justification to increase repression of free speech and democratic opposition.

But Ilham Tohti, a Uighur scholar in Beijing, said he worried that the authorities would use the event to increase repression in Xinjiang.

With the international community fixated on Iran's nuclear ambitions, Ebadi says there is dwindling scrutiny of human rights in her homeland, and the hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has taken advantage of this to increase repression.

That is also why it is essential that the West engage with Iran and avoid the one thing that could set back the country's inexorable evolution: an act of war that would increase repression and embolden religious nationalism.

Gingrich said that he would not change the failed policy of Barack Obama on travel to Cuba that serves to fill the regime's coffers and increase repression on the island.

"Increased repression leads to increased protest".

Increased visibility = increased awareness = increased repression = eventual acceptance?

Why have you felt the need for this increased repression?

When it increased repression — rather than loosening up — a supine International Olympic Committee barely offered a protest.

Reports of increasing repression are not surprising in Azerbaijan, long one of the former Soviet Union's most authoritarian states.