The word 'repressing' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means suppressing or restraining something, often emotions or memories. Example: The therapist helped her acknowledge and release her repressed feelings, allowing her to live a more fulfilling life.
After so long repressing her true self, you could forgive her for not wanting to look like a regular 65-year-old woman – for wanting to go the glamorous route and not, say, be sitting there in a cosy cardi, without her rollers in.
Spaniards talk about "Europe" as bound up emotionally with the coming of democracy, with the release from isolation in a conservative, rural Iberian peninsula, even in Barcelona with the scrapping of Franco-era rules repressing the Catalan language.
The surprise is all the greater since Sheikh Hamad, when he was head of the army, was part of the team repressing protest.
Yet, even at the height of that bloodshed, many ordinary Turks and Kurds, helped by a common Muslim faith, coexisted quite happily.Countless Turkish Kurds albeit by dint of repressing their identity have won high positions.
More commonly, trials are waived out of self-interest, as in Latin America when retiring generals and dictators amnestied themselves after years of repressing others.As a rule, Mr Neier believes that the best answer is a trial, if necessary away from the scene of the crime in a permanent world tribunal.
But Amnesty (perhaps inevitably, given its commitment to accentuate the negative) has little faith in economics or private business as a source of liberty.Questioned about this, Ms Khan insists that Amnesty still sees governments as the agencies that matter most in delivering or repressing human rights.
Similarly, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic has been forcibly repressing Kosovo's ethnic Albanians regardless of NATO's threat that Serb brutality would not be tolerated.
In the summer of 2010 Russia unleashed a television attack on Mr Lukashenka, accusing him of usurping power and repressing the media.
In the 1980s Ho Chi Minh's successors as party leaders damaged the war-ravaged economy even more by attempting to introduce real communism, collectivising land ownership and repressing private business.
PRI governments, so accustomed to command and control, have still not figured out how to deal with protesters except by buying them off, ignoring them or repressing them.The Zedillo stalemateHopes that the PRI would change in response to all these challenges centred for a time on Mr Zedillo himself.
They arrested him and the army began repressing eastern protesters.Bengalis flocked to join the rebel forces who were fighting for independence.
