Sentence examples for more repressive as from inspiring English sources

The 1979 revolutionary government became more repressive as a result of internal divisions and external pressures to redirect or overthrow it.

But critics contend that many of Africa's former-guerrilla-fighters-turned-leaders are growing steadily more repressive as their terms stretch from years into decades.

As an enriched and empowered Iran becomes more aggressive abroad and more repressive at home, will such regrets eventually haunt President Obama too?

Opting for a pragmatic policy does not seem to have prevented the Council from taking measures of a more repressive hue as well.

In more repressive societies, such as modern Western society, it is more likely to be tolerated (but not encouraged) if the individuals intend marriage.

Jihadsts – young men who dream of a "French intifada" in the infamous gritty ethnic banlieue – fantasise of more repressive, violent police as recruiters.

He made a success of the Home Office because he thought of it not as a grim struggle to meet the public demand for more severe penalties and more repressive legislation, but as a chance to create the sort of society in which he believed.

2) This fledgling community's real vessel, Singapore, has flaws, its defenders admit, but that's no reason to class it with the more repressive Abu Dhabi, Kazakhstan, or China, as I did.

As Mugabe became more repressive of dissent, Tsvangirai's star rose among the disaffected of Zimbabwe and as a darling of the west.

His sense of power and entitlement grew as he became more repressive.

Egypt is generally rated as one of the more repressive countries in the world's most repressive region.