Sentence examples for massive repression from inspiring English sources

But now there is massive repression and defiance of the whole world.

The idea appears to be to confront Ayatollah Khomeini with a choice between dealing with the moderates or facing military intervention and massive repression.

Another, the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party (HDP) has been dramatically reduced through massive repression, under the guise of counterterrorism efforts.

For sure, demonstrations, shootings and massive repression brought a picture of chaos and revolution to Tehran and had left Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's Peacock Throne tottering.

But the Guatemalan Army turned to its strategy of massive repression in large part because Congress refused to go along with the Reagan administration's efforts to send helicopters and other hardware.

Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, president of the independent human rights commission, said he fears Castro is planning to use a U.S. request for a crackdown on departures of Cuban raft people as a "pretext for massive repression" against Cubans who have taken advantage of the crisis to denounce the government.

The government responded with massive, indiscriminate repression, particularly in poblaciones where many victims without any political affiliation died.

They abolished the elected municipal councils, imposed a foreign Sunni monarchy, and dealt with resistance by means of massive military repression.

Nevertheless, we investigated whether the effects of curaxins on the spatial organization of the genome are the consequences of massive transcriptional repression.

The economic mismanagement is a piece of Mr. Erdogan's increasingly megalomaniacal rule, which has included massive domestic repression and deluded attempts to bully other states, including Israel, Germany and Russia.

As I've argued previously, violence and unrest in Syria and Egypt can be linked not just to the regional impacts of climate change in terms of water scarcity and food production, but also their complex interconnections with domestic oil and gas scarcity, neoliberal austerity, rampant inequality, endemic corruption, and massive political repression.