Sentence examples for repressive grip from inspiring English sources

Progressives and secularists suggested that Ireland was thriving because it had finally escaped the Catholic Church's repressive grip, which kept horizons narrow and families large, and limited female economic opportunity.

Many of Myanmar's ethnic groups are restive, presenting challenges for President Thein Sein as he leads the country out of decades of military dictatorship that justified its repressive grip in part by citing ethnic insurgencies.

No such vocabulary or demand has been emanating from Ban's office over the carnage that Iran's government, in order to maintain its monstrously repressive grip, has been inflicting on its own people.

Is this a sign of society loosening its repressive grip on sexual expression?

Ultimately, there can be no smooth transition without a loosening of the party's repressive political grip.

You are in the grip of repressive laws and conventions, class differences that signal privilege versus shame, or disdain versus resentment; family secrets and private fears and evasions.

Today Iran is in the grip of a repressive regime.

Poland, like the other Soviet-bloc countries, was in the grips of a repressive regime.

MANY sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what they saw in the waning days of the Soviet Union: a repressive government backed by old hard-liners losing its grip to a new generation of well-educated, liberal-leaning sophisticates.

While Algeria's current leaders and the repressive government they oversee seem to have an iron grip on the country, one that has so far shown little sign of descending into the chaos the Arab Spring has brought elsewhere, the same could hardly be said of Libya's current leaders.

WITH the world's attention on the uprisings in the Middle East, repressive regimes elsewhere are taking the opportunity to tighten their grip on power.