Sentence examples for repressive aspects from inspiring English sources

In addition, U.S. aid had resumed, and with it came pressure for relaxation of some of the most obviously repressive aspects of the family dictatorship.

The church alone continued to object to the repressive aspects of the regime, such as the inhumane treatment of the Indian minority and censorship.

Although some former East Germans are uncomfortable with such disproportionate public attention on repressive aspects of their former country, the Berlin Wall was a defining aspect of the regime and a worldwide symbol of the Cold War.

My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.

In such a cauldron, Smith argues, idealistic American efforts to democratize the region are doomed: "Repressive violence and terror are two aspects of a political culture that has no mechanism for either sharing power or transmitting political authority from one governing body to another except through inheritance, coup or conquest".

A repressive government looms large over every aspect of life: romantic love is outlawed, free will is dismissed, and even singular personal pronouns are banned, as are, apparently, names that don't include numbers.

Tokyo was chosen because it could provide colourful environments required for the film's hallucinogenic aspects, and because Japan's repressive drug laws add to the drama, explaining the intensity of the main character's fear of the police.

"The decade of the 90's began with 'City of Quartz' and its elegantly presented noir vision of Los Angeles as a repressive conspiracy, and sure enough, all these noir aspects came out, beginning with the riots in '92.

One of the most striking findings of our study is the potent repressive effect of miR-142-5p/-3p on genes controlling every aspect of immune response, and the corresponding suppression of the response to inflammatory cytokines.

Indeed, the results herein suggest that there are common aspects to the histone-binding pockets of the repressive HKMTs, EZH2 and EHMT1/2, different from other HKMTs.

This indicates that they act on some aspect of the dosage compensation pathway rather than the surrounding repressive chromatin.