Sentence examples for more repressive with from inspiring English sources

He grew more repressive with the years and took on corrupt and grasping advisers.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chávez's policies for dealing with the students are growing more repressive, with officials claiming some student protests turned violent or were about to do so.

The challenge is to design new, innovative, creative and exciting access-points for children to enter the republic of reading, not in finding more repressive regimes and rule with which to further limit it.

For all his military posturing, Mr Chávez, writes Mr Carroll, "carried a plastic sword".Someone with more repressive instincts might have done something about the country's terrifying murder rate.

These results indicate that ESCs probably have a globally more repressive epigenetic status compared with the ICM.

He at first attempted a conciliatory policy but had to suppress two insurrections in 1866, and Queen Isabella replaced him with the more repressive Gen. Ramón Narváez.

Until recently, the country adopted a more repressive approach to drug use, with laws that penalised the possession and consumption of drugs.

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.

There were "many more" repressive regimes ruling over their people with an iron fist, he said.

The domestic legislative measures accord with the formulation of a national-security state backed by the guarantee of never-ending foreign war that arms the government with police powers more repressive than those available to the agents of the eighteenth-century British crown.

With the government calling for more repressive policing, there is the sound of history repeating itself.