Sentence examples for repressive approach from inspiring English sources

The international community should admit the inadequacy of what is a unilateral, temporary and often repressive approach to mobility.

In general, the country's repressive approach towards drug users and homosexuals contributes to a stigmatisation of the disease.

That is in large part the result of the government's historically repressive approach towards information and entertainment.

Which is why there's also an increasing anxiety that a less repressive approach to religion might open the door to radicalisation.

If the authorities want to be seen as defenders and promoters of human rights internationally, they should replace their cold, uncomprehending and at times repressive approach to civil society's role in our democracy with a more welcoming, liberal one.

In a ruling that helped give Centaurus and other brothels a new lease on life, the judge contended that prosecutors had undertaken a "repressive" approach to dealing with prostitution.

Many states who sit on the CND – China, Iran and Russia – favor repressive approaches to drug policy.

The proposed government bill's tough stance on drug trafficking while at the same time calling for less repressive approaches to consumption reflects a major shift in perspective toward looking at drug consumption as an issue of public health, and not a criminal one.

Since the launch of Thailand's 2003 "War on Drugs" campaign, the government has continued to rely on repressive approaches to drugs, including arbitrary arrests, blacklisting, drug planting by police, extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations of people involved with drugs [ 11, 36, 37].

But observers say the junta led by former army chief-turned-prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha — which took power in a coup in May — may well pursue a more repressive, hardline approach than its civilian predecessors, dashing hopes for ongoing, but stumbling, peace talks.

"Every brief, every opinion," Eleanor Smeal, a leader of the feminist movement, said in testimony opposing the nomination, "takes a repressive and regressive approach to constitutional protections for women and minorities".