Sentence examples for repressive forces from inspiring English sources
As the regime is not unified in repressing the uprising, it has not been able to use its repressive forces to their fullest capacity, which is being further weakened by increasing global public support for the democratic movement.
Her living presence was a victory over the most repressive forces on the planet.
It's like an Edith Wharton novel about the repressive forces of culture and how we internalize that stuff and how it erases us from ourselves".
(Fox, $34.99, R) AGORA The philosopher, scientist and mathematician Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) fights to preserve the ancient wisdom of Alexandria against the repressive forces of fifth-century Christianity.
Hollywood may have knuckled under to the most reactionary and repressive forces in government and in the movie business itself, but there were people outside of Hollywood who managed not to.
Washington took the first step toward making amends when President Bill Clinton visited Guatemala in 1999 and offered a vague apology for America's support of violent and repressive forces there.
Davies does more than film Dickinson's life; he creates a world that is, above all, her inner world, confined to the increasingly narrow circles of her activity that, as they contract, raise the repressive force on her repressed emotional life and raise the heat on the emotions that she presses into her brief, curt, only seemingly cool verses.
Dissent was met with increasing repressive force.
The repressive force of the state unfolded Tuesday, with the military expanding its deployment to restive regions in the north and east and security forces making more arrests, along with the consequences of thousands of lives uprooted.
That same day, the United States Embassy gloomily concluded that "many responsible Mexicans" now believed "that repressive force will be an inevitable part of the Mexican political system for some time to come".
34 has her say" (April 26): Thomas Friedman is wrong in his implication that the Egyptian military has mysteriously turned from a pro-democracy agent during the Arab Spring to a repressive force today.
