Sentence examples for isolation and repression from inspiring English sources

However, his policy of state control, isolation and repression made things worse.

After four decades of isolation and repression under Fidel Castro's Communist rule, Cuba's surviving democrats would seem to be worthy candidates for American sympathy and support.

Under Mr. Thein Sein, Myanmar has been slowly emerging from a prolonged era of isolation and repression, with new freedoms of expression, a new Constitution and elections.

Critics say they wonder whether an Iraqi judiciary, crippled from years of isolation and repression, is up to the task of carrying out such a complex war-crimes case.

With her vaguely patrician looks, Hurt — who was a wonder in Andrei Serban's 1977 production of "The Cherry Orchard," and equally memorable as a writer searching for her voice in Woody Allen's 1978 film, "Interiors" — has always known how to hold back, how to use minimal gestures to signal a character's isolation and repression.

To fight back against isolation and repression, Mr. Copti and Ritesh Batra, senior educator and program manager at the Doha Film Institute, started "Harrer, Harrer" — Liberation, Liberation in Arabic — a traveling seven-day workshop in which participants tell personal stories, in one-minute films, about the recent revolutions in the Middle East.

The group experience banished ignorance born of isolation and sexual repression.

The album's title track deals with the aftermath of a man's isolation and sexual repression, as he contemplates suicide and struggles to reconnect with the world around him.

But he made the crimes themselves seem an almost inevitable outgrowth of Swiss rural isolation, Calvinist repression, and intense social jealousy, and the obvious parallels to the present were reminiscent of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Even so, Myanmar's decades of repression, isolation, and economic sluggishness may not be cast off so easily.

The tour is another milestone in Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's progress from political prisoner to political leader seeking to steer her country out of decades of repression, isolation and poverty to full engagement with the rest of the world.