Sentence examples for repressive character from inspiring English sources

By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, June 6 , 1970 P. 25Comment about how the repressive character of the war in Indo-China seems to be determining the character of our domestic political policies.

As Mkandawire (2001 293) observes, "…the African state [became] the most demonized social institution in Africa, vilified for its weaknesses, its over-extension, its interference with the smooth functioning of markets, its repressive character, its dependence on foreign powers, its ubiquity, its absence, etc".

They argue that, as a prescription for social ills, the violent and repressive character of incarceration normalizes social control and erodes the fabric of freedom and liberty in society.

This highly repressive character may enhance the effectiveness of alternative splicing.

In comparison, histone methylation and ubiquitination may have a dual outcome, depending on the identity of the amino acid residue concerned in the histone tail, while sumoylation has a purely repressive character (Choudhuri 2010).

Panduro could see no easy resolution of this antagonism, and the breakdowns of his main characters confirm the repressive nature of even a seemingly idyllic society like Denmark.

Kowtowing to repressive friends is certainly part of this episode.

On the other hand, TEs act negatively on flanking genes if they are silenced transcriptionally as the "silencing character" spreads into flanking domains (repressive chromatin influence).

"Hairspray" won eight Tony Awards last year, and Ms. Hoffman garnered a Theater World Award for her outsize portrayals of a handful of wacky characters in the show: a repressive 60's mom, a Sapphic gym coach and an S&M prison matron.

Such intimidation and character assassination is behavior more reminiscent of repressive dictatorships than of our democracy, whose fundamental principles of free speech and respect for others' opinions these elected officials claim they wish to export.

Previews begin next Saturday; opens Aug. 9. From the Play: Feeling Everything The character, played by Jeff Weiss, is a cousin of the repressive general running the country in which "Resurrection Blues" takes place.