To some, this could conjure up comparisons to the agents of repressive governments in the Middle East who monitor online protests and exact retribution offline.
My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.
In societies which are repressive, we should identify the agents of change and buttress their work.
It has skeptical, repressive parents.
Salah Hanafy is the icily detached agent of the repressive state, applying the electrodes to a detainee's naked body by day, and by night negligently answering his wife's questions over the dinner table in their comfortable family home.
They have not been deterred by the criminal penalties contained in the "foreign agents" law and other repressive laws.
The domestic legislative measures accord with the formulation of a national-security state backed by the guarantee of never-ending foreign war that arms the government with police powers more repressive than those available to the agents of the eighteenth-century British crown.
The activation of the repressive promoters mediated by this demethylating agent sustains the fact that unmodified and acetylated histones bind preferentially within areas of repressive and active genes, respectively.
William Richards, known as Oliver the Spy, who was working for the repressive home secretary Lord Sidmouth, probably acted as an agent provocateur – possibly on his own initiative – telling the men they would be part of a national rising.
Mr. Aushev was vice premier under the former president of the republic, Murat Zyazikov, a K.G.B. agent widely reviled by Ingush for his repressive policies.
