Sentence examples for repressive legislation from inspiring English sources

Repressive legislation, inquisitions, and ultimately mass deportations followed.

Forcing our intelligence agencies to cooperate doesn't require repressive legislation.

Theresa May's government has since introduced more repressive legislation.

Now the white apartheid government instituted increasingly repressive legislation against blacks.

The unwise demonstrations of the radicals caused the government to have recourse to repressive legislation.

Russia tries to expand its influence by exporting its repressive legislation to former Soviet states.

His government has approved vaguely worded and potentially repressive media legislation, apparently to encourage self-censorship.Two of the four took the hint.

Observers have suggested the assailants are either acting at someone else's behest or are lone wolves emboldened by the repressive new legislation.

"Prosecutions, travel bans and asset freezes against human rights defenders, in addition to repressive new legislation, threaten to effectively eradicate independent civil society.

Consider that, in 2009 ALEC has helped draft repressive immigration legislation and has had a longstanding comfortable relationship with the private prison industry.

Some 27 Nobel laureates from the fields of science and the arts are demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin repeal repressive homophobic legislation which has placed his country at the centre of mounting international fury over gay rights.