Sentence examples for oppressive tactics from inspiring English sources

The high court's decision to dismiss all four judicial reviews gives tacit approval for the police to use these oppressive tactics time and time again at the Olympics and beyond.

Its return recalled the oppressive tactics of the former junta, and confirmed what many had already suspected: that the country's reform process has gone into reverse.Burmese are increasingly frustrated with the current government's policies, which they feel have compounded their economic hardship.

The dream of all dictators is to know as much about you as Google does, says Jacob Mchangama, a Danish human-rights lawyer.Authoritarian states have also learned how to use the language of human rights to legitimise their oppressive tactics, for instance by claiming to defend religious groups.

"The Mubarak-era oppressive tactics are back once again in a more ferocious form.

In stark contrast, the prison environment is renowned for its oppressive tactics and removal of liberties, thus voting whilst incarcerated is quite unique.

Twitter became the unexpected battleground for tensions between the United States and Egypt, after the American embassy tweeted an episode of The Daily Show, which tore into the oppressive tactics of President Mohammed Morsi.

Looking back to Freire we posited that his "pedagogy of hope" would build reasoning skills such as are exercised in logic and would denounce gullibility as an oppressive tactic (Freire, 1970).

Twitter is subversive, a tool to "defy the limitations of time and space," a means to build intentional communities, and "part of a collective struggle... to end capitalism and abandon the replication of oppressive exclusionary tactics within ethnic confines".

He denounced the brutal tactics and oppressive policies of the Indonesian government despite at least two attempts on his life, in 1989 and 1991.

The use of oppressive and intimidatory police tactics means that many are now too frightened to partake in protests, and this deprives a whole generation of political empowerment.

Again: the camera, combined with the will and means to use it and spread the resultant images, gives the underdog leverage, as with the lesser case of police aggression in New York, and makes quaint the traditional obfuscatory tactics of oppressive regimes.