Sentence examples for repressive about from inspiring English sources

There is nothing sinister or repressive about the center; institutions of this kind can be found in many countries around the world.

Rockford ended up serving as a key setting in "Look at Me," a place that represents all that is repressive about small-town American life, and all that might be redemptive about it, too.

If we are repressive about our human rights, if we are phobic about Islam, if we are going to stop the way we live, we are playing into Isis's hands – and that is a real worry".

Curiously, however, chick FOXD3 does not bind to this element, at least in vitro; rather, its repressive activity comes about by a mechanism that is independent of DNA binding.

In the aftermath of the Commune, the government took harsh repressive action: about 38,000 were arrested and more than 7,000 were deported.

Senator Bob Day is in the front line of attacks on 18C yet Family First, his political party, is wedded to some pretty repressive views about freedom of expression.

They rely on limited and fairly repressive ideas about what sex 'should' be".

As Times columnist Frank Bruni put it, by issuing "repressive rules about what people should be able to say and hear," students at this liberal college in fact displayed illiberalism.

For decades, we've had factions of Congress engage, at every turn, in tactics that limit access to equality -- and the Republican Party has now validated some of the most outlandishly bigoted and repressive beliefs about the LGBT community.

"It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system," he said.

Tells about repressive regimes in Belarus and Turkmenistan.