Sentence examples for overt repression from inspiring English sources

They insisted that overt repression, however repellent, was the only way to fight the insidious structural tyranny of colonialist capitalism.

Full-scale overt repression was not launched, partly because they didn't have the forces at their disposal.

Dictatorships are ultimately based on terror not necessarily overt repression, but the knowledge that lurks at the back of every citizen's mind that there are lines that cannot be crossed without incurring terrible penalties.

Many of the countries that fall between these two extremes from those that have only the trappings of democracy to those that have imperfectly implemented democratic reforms exert control over labor in the absence of overt repression but without the robust organizational and institutional capacity enjoyed by full-fledged democracies.

"White people tend to read books by black writers only during those periods when particularly overt repression (the 1919 riots, the 1950's desegregation violence) has led to black militancy and white liberal sympathy (the early 1920's, the early 1960's)." Weinberger places Hughes among a constellation of other modernists: Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams.

Political scientists show, for example, that leaders understand that institutional manipulation offers greater advantages and fewer liabilities than reliance on traditional tactics like overt repression, which forces compliance with the regime through brute force, but risks creating popular discontent that can lead to destabilizing civil unrest.

In an age of unprecedented Islamophobia, Arab and Muslim students have suffered overt prejudice and repression of their views, yet the document makes only passing reference to their experience.

But it also meant a certain legal equality, guaranteed jobs, however poor, and the repression of overt racism.

Targeted by violent extremists with an overt agenda of gender repression, women's security is especially threatened in the conflict zones in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

The question worth asking, is if there's more merit to the case that the overt nature of GOP repression fuels Leftist opposition, while the friendlier face of Democratic Despots goes unnoticed and unchecked by either the Left or Right.

Development of overt tumours involves epigenetic repression of the chromatin.