Sentence examples for repression given from inspiring English sources

In a graphic eyewitness account of the repression given to the Observer, a Bahraini who has been caught up in the violence claimed that officers with Saudi accents, in plainclothes but armed with automatic weapons, had led attacks on members of the Shia opposition on several occasions over the past month.

If protests were to escalate, it is likely that they will be met with violence and repression, given the West's reluctance to put boots on the ground in countries that are neither resource rich nor otherwise strategically important to the West.

Given the magnitude of Iran's direct intervention in Syria and Assad's deference to his Iranian riot-control masters, it would not be too much of a stretch to assert that Iran, rather than Syria, is largely overseeing the repression given the extensive role Iranian forces now have in putting down the revolt.

Just as the United States and European governments tolerated previous military dictatorships on the grounds that Turkey was a valuable NATO ally in the struggle against Communism, however, Western leaders have similarly demonstrated little inclination to challenge Erdoğan's repression given his perceived role as an ally in the struggle against Islamist extremism.

Throughout our data analysis we adopt the definition of enhanced repression given in Equation (1), which is more appropriate for characterizing effects of DNA looping.

Although E7 targets all pRb family proteins, its effects on EBP1 expression may be mediated to a large extent by abolishing pRb-mediated transcriptional repression, given that p107 and p130 do not appear to bind to the promoter in the presence of this growth factor.

That repression gave the free-market policies time to take hold.

Only once did this restraint, or repression, give way, in his extra-marital affair with the Greek beauty Maria Zambaco.

The failure of that revolution, supposedly in the face of concerted repression, gave the book a tragic tinge that only intensified its political appeal.

In an arc of revolts and revolution, that idea of a broader citizenship is being tested as the enforced silence of repression gives way to the cacophony of diversity.

That repression gives new meaning to Cole Porter's Night and day, you are the one, beneath the moon and under the sun.