Sentence examples for oppressive apparatus from inspiring English sources

To be sure, Hamilton was living in the era of "bourgeois" revolutions and the state he was building was a capitalist state, complete with the oppressive apparatus that always involves.

Where an oppressive police apparatus remains in power, that apparatus continues to beget crime, even though police violence is no longer initiated by the government.

But Parker insisted MI5 did not have or want an "all-pervasive, oppressive security apparatus".

There was a one-party state, a muzzled media and judiciary, and an oppressive security apparatus.

The generals have also signaled that they do not expect this or any future parliaments to enjoy much oversight of the military.Such intransigence, combined with the military's perceived reluctance to dismantle or reform the oppressive security apparatus inherited from Mr Mubarak's regime, helped provoke the latest protests, which left around 40 people dead.

This is why the release of the Tisa draft marks a new stage in the WikiLeaks strategy: until now its activity has been focused on making public how our lives are monitored and regulated by the intelligence agencies – the standard liberal topic of individuals threatened by oppressive state apparatuses.

He writes: Parker insisted MI5 did not have or want an "all-pervasive, oppressive security apparatus".

This means we are building a vast apparatus that may some day facilitate an oppressive regime.

"On the contrary, they are an extension of the oppressive and brutal methods practiced by the Syrian security apparatus".

You say that "we are building a vast apparatus that may some day facilitate an oppressive regime".

Oppressive systems, political and otherwise, exist not only because of a physical apparatus, but also because of a collectively reinforced psychological narrative.