Sentence examples for repressive against from inspiring English sources
In tiny Kyrgyzstan, for example, instability is rising as President Askar Akayev becomes more repressive against opposition politicians and the news media while the American force at the new airbase outside the capital, Bishkek, grows.
First, a commitment to stop ISIS is not a one-time deal, It would involve a sustained military strategy and, even more important, a determined effort to push Mr Maliki to be less repressive against Sunnis and to share Shia power with them.
His loyalty to the Ottomans eroded, however, due to the impact of the new regime's Turkification policies which he viewed as repressive against his ideals.
Tens of thousands of Algerians – then French citizens – converged on Paris on 17 October 1961 to protest against repressive measures taken against them by the prefect of police.
These rules should be clearly stated and enforced, by repressive measures (against foreign fundamentalists as well as against our own anti-immigrant racists) if necessary.
The rise to power of the Bolsheviks marked the turning point for the newspaper however, as the new government enacted increasingly repressive measures against the publication of dissident literature and against anarchist agitation in general, and after a few years of low-profile publishing, the Golos Truda collective was finally expunged by the Stalinist regime in 1929.
The U.S. also supported the reactionary and repressive Contras against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran government against the FMLN guerrillas and its supporters throughout the 1980s.
The settlers' victory led to repressive measures against the Africans.
In Iran, the administration of its president, Hassan Rouhani, has maintained repressive measures against the press.
Now the white apartheid government instituted increasingly repressive legislation against blacks.
Before his presidency, he commanded a military base in Zacapa, in eastern Guatemala, leading a repressive campaign against rebel guerrillas.
