Sentence examples for repressive aftermath from inspiring English sources

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE Spanish civil war and its repressive aftermath, following the victory of General Francisco Franco, was a particularly savage conflict.

Egypt's Muslims are monolithically Sunni but the 2011 revolution and its divisive and repressive aftermath have seen the Coptic Christian minority identified as supporters of the old regime and targeted by Islamist extremists.

Yet the lessons of June 4 and its repressive aftermath may weigh on the new leaders, especially if they are confronted by another political uprising, said Wu Wei, a former aide to Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded party leader ousted shortly before the crackdown.

Mr. Chan's novel, set in 2013, describes a rich and repressive China in the aftermath of a second global economic collapse, its people more-or-less happily "harmonized" by a mixture of money, fear and the drug Ecstasy, which the government adds to the water supply.

The repression in the aftermath was brutal.

As with many coups around the world, the aftermath will be bloody and repressive.

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

In the early 2000s, popular uprisings in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine succeeded not only in ousting repressive governments, but also in consolidating more or less democratic regimes in their aftermath.

I am talking, of course, about the policy of supporting, or at least tolerating, autocratic and repressive régimes that agree to promote Western interests — a tactic that dates back to the aftermath of the First World War, when the British and the French installed a series of absolutist monarchs across the region.

"Is Kagame repressive?

Most are repressive and unpopular.