Sentence examples for repressive institutions from inspiring English sources

He and his lawyers launched merciless attacks on the Islamic republic's more archaic and repressive institutions.

Not everyone shares the same levels of optimism or pessimism about the internet's innate ability to out-innovate repressive institutions.

Progressive change in Bangladesh depends on millions of young women taking on some of the world's most repressive institutions and corporations.

In this view, Saudi Arabia should be faulted for its poor record on human rights and women's rights, its repressive institutions and its support and financing for anti-Western religious schools and militant Islamic movements.

Instead of citizens from diverse faiths and backgrounds linking up to undermine the repressive institutions of the state, the current president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, demands a grateful, pliant populace that forms "one hand" with its political elders, while dissenters are banished beyond the realm of the possible, outside the familial fold.

Chessex collapsed during a lecture at the Municipal Library in Yverdon les Bains, discussing a play adapted from his 1967 novel La Confession du Pasteur Burg (The Confession of Pastor Burg), an intense work dealing with the conflict between desire and repressive institutions and laws.

The abolition of that repressive institution was one of Mr Aristide's achievements.

Many once again saw the Italian state only as a repressive institution.

The National Theatre had brought the two of them together for a platform discussion in the Olivier at the time of the stage adaptation of His Dark Materials, a work which has been decried by some Christians for its attack on organised religion in the shape of the Magisterium, a repressive institution not unlike the Catholic Church.

However, after the class struggle has resulted in the victory of the proletariat and the establishment of a socialist society, there will be no further need for such a repressive institution; with the disappearance of classes, the state is expected to "wither away".

Dadaists fought strongly across the globe against such repressive social institutions, though were written-off by some as merely absurdist and inconsequential based on their plentiful antics and scattered network.