Sentence examples for repress legitimate from inspiring English sources

"We can't see any legitimate purpose behind this investigation, and it looks to us like another attempt to repress legitimate political dissent," said Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the A.C.L.U.

They demanded proof that the money raised was used for criminal activity and condemned what they said was a government-inspired campaign to repress legitimate public debate on animal testing.

"As you look back to the founding of the republic with the Alien Sedition Act," he said of the bill signed by President John Adams in 1798, "it was used to repress legitimate criticism of the Federalist Party, contributing to the election of Thomas Jefferson and the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

The counter-subversion thinking of this earlier period undermined civil liberties and had a problematic influence on counter-terrorism policy; they risked repressing those engaged in legitimate political activity, while misunderstanding those who present a genuine threat of violence.

In the view of professional sex workers and some human-rights organizations, it is not prostitution itself that harms women but, rather, the refusal to treat prostitutes as legitimate workers, leading police to repress, extort, and assault them, and making it difficult for them to obtain health services.

From the other wing Orsi made an excellent shot at the end of a run, but one could not repress the feeling that the visitors had peculiar ideas of a legitimate tackle.

The pontiff added that there was now "a growing opposition to the death penalty even for the legitimate defence of society" because modern means existed to "efficiently repress crime without definitively denying the person who committed it the possibility of rehabilitating themselves".

The legitimate social and economic demands of the people were repressed and denied, and the regime used the police to control the population.

It charged that the Taliban were allied with terrorists, repressed the Afghan population, interfered with the delivery of aid and were not legitimate rulers of the nation.

They repress trade rivals.

Some people repress the question.