Sentence examples for repressive actions from inspiring English sources
An administration spokesman instead criticized the Belarus government for its "repressive actions".
The year was marked generally by repressive actions on the part of the authorities.
It relates the Nuremberg laws against the Jews, for example, to the Jim Crow policies in the South and other repressive actions.
Albanian leaders in Kosovo and Macedonia said the decision would inflame tensions because Yugoslav forces were hated and feared by Albanians for their repressive actions in Kosovo for a decade before the war of 1999.
The 1995 case is also a warning against blaming "Islamists" for terror, while turning a blind eye to repressive actions of governments in the Arab world when they suit western governments' agenda.
At that point, distinguished figures, including Mr. Vargas Llosa, the Mexican poet and future Nobel laureate Octavio Paz and the novelist Carlos Fuentes, defended Mr. Padilla's right to self-expression and criticized Cuba's repressive actions.
These data, along with recent findings showing the evening complex (ELF3, ELF4, and LUX) directly binds to the PRR9 promoter to repress transcription, support the repressive action of ELF3 in the core oscillator (Helfer et al., 2011; Nusinow et al., 2011; Chow et al., 2012; Herrero et al., 2012).
In view of these results, v-ErbA seems to have mostly a repressive action on gene transcription because it represses more genes than it activates.
We draw two conclusions from these data: (1) the level of Pho7 bound in high-Pi conditions would be sufficient to induce high levels of transcription if not for the repressive action of Csk1; and (2) Csk1 does not repress Pho7 activity by preventing Pho7 from binding to the promoters of responsive genes.
In the aftermath of the Commune, the government took harsh repressive action: about 38,000 were arrested and more than 7,000 were deported.
Both developments led Vietnam's one-party regime to take repressive action against journalists and bloggers who criticized the government's handling of those issues.
