Sentence examples for repressive authorities from inspiring English sources

In the poem, he said, "We are all Tunisia in the face of repressive" authorities, and the piece criticized Arab governments that restrict freedoms.

The local struggles they had waged had all failed miserably, crushed by repressive authorities or undermined by flagging public support amid chaotic and apparently indiscriminate violence against other Muslims.

To get round government shutdowns of internet and mobile-phone networks, resourceful dissidents have used such makeshift antennae to link their computers and handsets to more orthodox transmission equipment in neighbouring countries.Technologies that transmit data under the noses of repressive authorities in this way are spreading like wildfire among pro-democracy groups, says Mr Moss.

We don't have time here to discuss whether it was silenced by repressive authorities, or if it primarily caved in due to internal weaknesses in strategy and tactics.

Let me set aside the distressing irony that protesters in, say, Tahrir Square in Cairo last spring were, in the main, better treated by repressive authorities than protesters on a California campus.

"The core of all rebellion is the denying of repressive authority," RATM guitarist Tom Morello told me in 2005.

It's a brilliant performance that reminds you Orton had a Euripidean distrust of repressive authority that envied the vices it condemned.

One minor nail, a drawing pin, in brutalism's coffin was its rapid espousal by the Wilsonian establishment, which caused half-witted spartist protest-kids to identify it with repressive authority.

He said the excerpts prosecutors wanted to use were "snippets" that leave out passages that show Ms. Stewart "has for more than 40 years stood up to repressive authority, as a lawyer and as a social and political activist".

But as recently as last month Mr. Weitz, who wrote the script's current version, following earlier drafts by the playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, was revising scenes that set up the movie's complicated story about a girl's struggle against repressive authority.

The film's themes include artistic freedom, religion, political ambiguity, autodidacticism, and the making of art within a repressive authority.