Sentence examples for repressive movement from inspiring English sources

Every dictator in history, every repressive movement down through the years, has been founded on certainty.

But when the AK Party relinquished its devotion to democratic reforms and grew more repressive, the Hizmet movement withdrew its support.

Al Qaeda's base of operations was in Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban - a ruthless, repressive and radical movement that seized control of that country after it was ravaged by years of Soviet occupation and civil war, and after the attention of America and our friends had turned elsewhere.

As I and many others have written, Putin wants to create a "conservative international" to unite the world's repressive governments and movements against liberalism.

Without a strong state or patron they are often hopeless in the face of repressive states or movements.

After years of quiescence under Mr. Suharto's repressive rule, the student movement was only beginning to coalesce on Indonesian campuses in May.

The world at large objects to the movement's repressive policies, especially towards women.Iran declares itself betrayed by Pakistan, traditionally its good friend, and its press has been targeting Islamabad.

My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.

Governments' attempts to minimize its probability of collapse or to maintain law and order can result in movements towards a repressive or an expansionary economic measure, and/or political repression or liberation.

"There is a new interest in individual freedom and a movement away from repressive, one-party systems," she said.

A quick, unified and decisive repressive stance can nip any movement before it really gets moving.