Sentence examples for repressive instruments from inspiring English sources

Even so, given the range of repressive instruments in the hands of Arab states, both the turnout and tenor of protests have been eye-catching.

Heavy censorship was just one of a range of repressive instruments of state available to him that also included a large spy network.

Now, six years after the revolution, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government has "reconstituted and expanded the repressive instruments" of Mubarak's regime into a systematic "torture assembly line" perpetuated by police and prosecutors, Human Rights Watch said in a graphic and disturbing report released Wednesday.

While the geopolitical imperatives that underlay the war on terror are being fundamentally questioned, anti-terrorism continues to be used and abused as a flexible repressive instrument across Europe and beyond.

But there were respected lawyers who came forward to say, in public, that the appeal a minima was not routine, and that the law was being used as a repressive instrument.

And there's too little acknowledgment that God isn't just a potent engine of altruism, mercy and solace, but also, in instances, a divisive, repressive instrument; that godliness isn't any prerequisite for patriotism; and that someone like Page deserves as much respect as any true believer.

My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.

There have been reports that Sunni citizens in Anbar have joined the foreign militants fighting the Iraqi army, which they see as an instrument of a repressive Shiite government.

Verdi made up Egyptian music for Aïda by using exotic scales, flutes and harps (as seen in ancient Egyptian painting), and historically inaccurate brass instruments to represent the repressive power of the Egyptian Empire.

"I want to call attention to the mortal danger facing open societies from the instruments of control that machine learning and artificial intelligence can put in the hands of repressive regimes.

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