Sentence examples for repressive capabilities from inspiring English sources

The East Berlin regime was propped up not only by its ubiquitous secret police and a huge network of informers, but also by a monolithic control of the media and repressive capabilities ranging from the subtle to the brutal.

Although ChREBP has been shown to possess intrinsic repressive capabilities [13,22], we were unable to demonstrate direct binding of ChREBP in vivo despite scanning the obvious E-boxes, by extensive ChIP assays, at either low or high glucose concentrations (see Fig. 3).

The poor repressive capability of xylose leads to an up-regulation of MDH2[ 27] (Additional file 2: Table S5), encoding cytosolic malate dehydrogenase, which has previously been suggested as an unbeneficial reaction that directs carbon away from amino acid synthesis by converting oxaloacetate into malate [ 31].

The bottom line is that Mr. Khan was quite content to provide some of the world's most repressive regimes with the capability to blow up its neighbors and anybody else.

It is certainly true that NATO played a critical role in disrupting the heavy weapons capability of the repressive Libyan regime and blocking its fuel and ammunition supplies through massive airstrikes and by providing armaments and logistical support for the rebels.

The Commerce Department and State Department have questioned whether it would inhibit innovation, as well as whether repressive regimes might harness the same capabilities to identify political dissidents, according to officials familiar with the discussions.

It also cast, by implication, significant doubt that returning to negotiations would do much good: "In North Korea's view," it concluded, "the destruction of regimes such as Ceausescu, Hussein and Qaddafi was not an inevitable consequence of repressive government, but rather of a failure to secure the necessary capabilities to defend their respective autocratic regime's survival".

I know there are several countries - mostly dictatorships with highly repressive regimes - desperately trying to acquire chemical weapons, biological weapons or, in particular, nuclear weapons capability.

"Is Kagame repressive?

Most are repressive and unpopular.

Internally, the regime remained repressive.