Sentence examples for repressed population from inspiring English sources

Many responses in these polls belie Secor's assertion of a repressed population — including sharp criticisms of the Interior Ministry and no increase in the percentage of respondents saying, after Iran's 2009 presidential election, that they supported President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

We also noted that pain complains increase with age from 35 years in a conflict-affected or repressed population [ 15].

The children are targets simply for living in rebel-held areas and being part of Syria's largest and repressed Sunni population.

The virulome is repressed when population densities are low.

China's leaders have brutally repressed the populations of Tibet and East Turkestan for many decades.

The UK government guaranteed sales of British-made Scorpion tanks and Hawk jets which were used to repress the population of East Timor, which Indonesia invaded in 1975,  killing 200,000 Timorese.

Third, technologies can enhance the abilities of authoritarian regimes to monitor, control and repress their population.

We, the signatory organizations of this [declaration], explicitly denounce the Martelly/Lamothe government's maneuvers to repress the population of Île-à-Vache and grant investors free reign on the island.

Wars that begin between governments over resources will rapidly degenerate into a war of all against all, as states lose their ability to provide basic services and repress populations.

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.

During late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages the Roman Empire (in its later phases known as the Byzantine Empire) repeatedly repressed the Jewish population, first by ejecting them from their homelands during the pagan Roman era and later by officially establishing them as second-class citizens during the Christian Roman era.