Sentence examples for international repression from inspiring English sources

This shifting dialectic of oppressors and oppressed is what makes all Pinter plays, in a sense, political and tallies with his public role as a voluble critic of international repression, censorship and wars (like the invasion of Iraq) that he perceives as unjust.

These criteria include assessing the risk that the arms might be used for internal repression or international aggression, for violations of human rights or international humanitarian law.

It is their responsibility to assess the risks of arms transaction against a set of criteria that include the risk that the arms might be used for internal repression or international aggression, for violations of human rights or international humanitarian law.

It banned "the export of equipment which might be used for internal repression or international aggression or contribute to regional instability".

Not long ago autocrats could invoke the notion of "national sovereignty" and avoid any interference from the international community during the internal repression of their citizens.

Some people believed Moscow had let the pogrom continue in order to win international support for repression of the growing separatist movement.

The dark side of Putin's displays, Wittes wrote, was that they were rooted in his aggression on the international stage and repression of dissidents and minority groups at home.

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In 1999, East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia, after a twenty-five-year military occupation that was marked by international condemnation of repression of the East Timorese.

It is made clear that RAF's extremism was a response to international right-wing repressions, and to the brutality of the West German police and their political masters.

While Human Rights Watch correctly highlights that "a review of Syria's record shows a consistent policy of repressing dissent regardless of international or regional pressures", repression is still justified by the regime as part of a wider nationalist narrative of Syria constantly under threat from Israel, the US and its allies.