"repress opposition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to suppress or control any opposing views or actions. Example: The government used excessive force to repress opposition during the peaceful protest, resulting in several injuries and arrests.
The Nationalists and Republicans proceeded to organize their respective territories and to repress opposition or suspected opposition.
Since independence from France in 1958, successive Guinean presidents relied on ruling party militias and security forces to intimidate and violently repress opposition voices.
"Those who have found themselves in intolerable social circumstances where local governments violently repress opposition have found Maoist military strategy compelling – from the Vietcong to the Naxalites".
But he has been unable, or unwilling, to disregard or repress opposition to the same degree as Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or even Russia's Vladimir Putin, let alone the Castro brothers in Cuba.Public opinion still matters in Venezuela.
In the power-sharing deal negotiated by Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president — a deal regional powers pressured Mr. Tsvangirai into accepting a year and a half ago — Mr. Mugabe retained control of the police, the army, the state media, critical ministries and a sprawling network of spies, all of which he has used to repress opposition.
Page 9 MYANMAR STIFLES DISSENT U Phoe Phyu, a 31-year-old lawyer and former political prisoner charged with illegal assembly and disobeying government orders, has become a reminder of the distance Myanmar has yet to travel to full political freedom and of the ways the government continues to use the judiciary to repress opposition and to stifle the press.
That voicelessness has grown more acute as political divisions have distended Mr. Abbas's stomach for repressing opposition.
And then there's Turkey, which is swiftly degenerating into a dictatorship, repressing opposition and inflicting serious human rights abuses against the country's Kurdish minority.
Opposition parties and independent human rights groups have been asserting for weeks that the Aliyev government was manipulating election procedures and repressing opposition parties and restricting their access to television.
As economic reforms fuelled disentitlement and poverty among the Egyptian population, that security apparatus became vital in facilitating the opening up of new terrains upon which the wealthy could speculate and profit, and in repressing opposition from below.
Protesters have been warned that they will be treated as accomplices of the rebel generals while rights activists have accused Nkurunziza of repressing opposition and gagging the independent media.
