Sentence examples for repressive means from inspiring English sources

For the following four decades the SED controlled all of East Germany's major institutions (with the exception of churches), governing through repressive means.

Sixtus swiftly restored peace and safety by harsh and repressive means, but his extreme measures in dealing with bandits created many enemies.

The danger is that if Mr Yanukovich fails to see them through, the temptation to hold on to power by repressive means may be hard to resist.

Calling on all the repressive means available in such a state — compliant courts and legislatures; the elimination of political competition; comprehensive censorship of television — soaring popularity ratings are achieved.

Calling on all the repressive means available in such a state compliant courts and legislatures; the elimination of political competition; comprehensive censorship of television soaring popularity ratings are achieved.

A second way coercion is active in creating global poverty and inequality is in the repressive means used by some autocrats to maintain power over their own poor subjects in underdeveloped countries.

The country's repressive nature means many use Twitter, often anonymously, as a way to vent their frustrations.

A surprise Bafta nominee this year, the film was equally difficult to make: those same repressive conditions meant Gharavi had to film secretly and smuggle her footage out of Iran.

His target throughout this book is not the right but the soft, democratic, meliorist left, which imagines that the egalitarian goals of communism can be realised by non-repressive, liberal means.

In the 12 months since Putin has been back in the Kremlin, parliament has passed a series of laws which his opponents say are repressive and meant to silence them.

But Zahra believes that in an increasingly repressive media environment means that activists need be careful about what they say online.