Sentence examples for repressive nation from inspiring English sources

The aim of it is to show that despite China's reputation as a sexually conservative if not downright repressive nation, the Chinese people have a long history of enjoying sex for its own sake.

This was a break from the usual repetitive routine of life in the world's most repressive nation: ceaseless work broken by Monday political classes and Saturday self-criticism sessions.

Whether it's fleeing a repressive nation for this new place or simply out the back door for the garage -- that is real freedom".

Absent from all the propaganda was any mention of Eritrea as one of the most repressive nations in the world.

Against that background, the advance of gays in Argentina may be seen as paving the way for other formerly politically repressive nations, like neighboring Chile.

Two of the world's most repressive nations, Myanmar and North Korea, restored diplomatic relations after more than two decades of estrangement.

The persistence of the demonstrations reflects deep unhappiness with economic hardships and strong-arm government rule in one of the most repressive nations in Asia, analysts said.

The government, which was under the rule of Gen. Gnassingbé Eyadéma for almost 40 years, operated with a heavy hand, making Togo, in West Africa, one of the continent's most closed and repressive nations.

Believed to be in his 20s, he faces enormous uncertainty over his ability to retain power in one of the most opaque and repressive nations — the last bastion of hard-line Communism.

That mission of countering Radio Shariat's propaganda should go to RFE/RL, the "radio free" outfit experienced in acting as a surrogate free press in repressive nations like Iran, Iraq and China.

and 2009's Menahi – neither of which had al-Mansour's film's killer hook: a feminist story filmed in the heart of one of the world's most repressive nations.