Sentence examples for is repressive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
Previously, it has been shown that the EcR can form homodimers in the absence of its binding partners in vitro (Elke et al, 1997), moreover the un-liganded receptor complex is repressive and this repression is relieved as the hormone titre increases (Schubiger and Truman, 2000; Schubiger et al, 2005).
The Iranian regime is repressive, but not unsophisticated in its repression.
"Is the whole world wrong when they say that the Taliban regime is repressive?" she asks one man.
The regulatory domain of HSF1 is repressive to transcription under normal temperatures while stress not only overturns repression but leads to trans-activation considerably greater in magnitude than might be accounted for by reversal of repression [49], [50].
"When the minuet is elaborately choreographed, that is repressive tolerance.
Look, he is repressive, there is no question that he is repressive, there is no question that he is an autocrat.
Most are repressive and unpopular.
Rather, it would be repressive and murderous.
It was repressive, violent, bloody and criminal.
Those boundaries are repressive enough to worry Druckerman.
A government can be repressive or impoverishing, never both.
