Sentence examples for most repressive of from inspiring English sources

Belarus has long stood out as one of the most repressive of the former Soviet republics.

Ukrainians, Balts, Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, and even the citizens of the most repressive of the Central Asian republics will mark their emergence from the Soviet yoke.

Even the most repressive of national governments is on some level beholden to its own people, or has the capacity to change and reform under popular pressure.

In Turkmenistan, regarded as the most repressive of the five countries, the state controls and licenses all publishing, and newspapers carry front-page notices that they are sponsored by President Saparmurat A. Niyazov, who was elected president for life last December.

Added Quinn, "Some of the most repressive of the current leaders have made a conscious effort to build proteges". Some note women's issues, which may present a public relations headache, pale in comparison to that of coping with church growth, most of which is occurring outside the United States.

Journalism watchdog groups accuse the governing People's Front for Democracy and Justice of turning Eritrea, a sliver of a country in the Horn of Africa, into one of the most repressive on the continent for the press.

Talking with him, I was reminded of what Robert Kennedy said when he visited South Africa in 1966, in the most repressive days of apartheid.

Brian Dooley, director for human rights defenders at the Washington-based Human Rights First, described the court ruling as the "government's single most repressive act of the last five years".

More people will fight for privacy and security than look to restrict it, even in the most repressive parts of the world.

Freedom House, the watchdog group, has ranked Equatorial Guinea among the nine most repressive "Worst of the Worst" nations in the world, along with Libya, Turkmenistan and Myanmar.

In practice, it is not Mr Portillo who decides such matters but Efrain Rios Montt, a former military dictator during the most repressive phase of the war.