Sentence examples for repression of demonstrations from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, issued a statement condemning what he called "the Syrian government's brutal repression of demonstrations, in particular the violence and killings of civilians at the hands of security forces".

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Criticism of China's violent repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989 was a factor in Beijing's narrow loss to Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games, a loss that still rankles.

This small awakening, combined with the brutal repression of their peaceful demonstrations, shifted the movement's core demand from ending political corruption to demanding, as the slogan went, "Independence, Freedom [and an] Iranian Republic".

The plaque – the subject of bitter political argument last month in the Paris city council – will read: "To the memory of Algerian victims of the bloody repression of a peaceful demonstration".

In the face of repression, demonstrations have subsided, but not the abuses.

After a year of demonstrations and repression, the battle for Iran's future was won by Iran's conservative hardliners loyal to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Sadder still, religion had been one of the major targets of Soviet repression, especially public demonstrations of belief, or religious imagery in art or literature.

The two reports mentioned above (Bok et al. 2009; Reyes-Dominguez et al. 2010) were the first formal demonstrations that repression of SM gene expression during the active growth phase and primary metabolism employs the heterochromatin regulator HepA (HP1-homologue) bound to trimethylated histone H3K9.

Initially, the protesters were not calling for the downfall of the monarchy but as repression intensified (demonstrations are illegal in Saudi Arabia) some did and also started attacking the security forces.

His death sparked weeks of demonstrations.