Sentence examples for instrument of repression from inspiring English sources

If law is applied selectively, then it becomes an instrument of repression.

It was Mr. Suharto's instrument of repression and terror until his ouster three years ago.

The army had been the main instrument of repression under Saddam Hussein.

"You cannot build a new Iraq while retaining that instrument of repression," he said.

In its time it became a controversial instrument of repression, used against those who refused to acknowledge the authority of the Church of England.

Since then, of 94 death sentences, 67 have been carried out.Military courts that exclude the right of appeal are but one instrument of repression.

This is not only because such states possess strong instruments of repression.

The new regime abolished such instruments of repression as censorship, the paramilitary forces, and the secret police.

A small minority of bitter-enders -- members of the former regime's instruments of repression -- oppose such freedom.

Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power.

In addition, all the organs of government that we think of in the West as being fair have become instruments of repression".