Sentence examples for repressive norms from inspiring English sources
The better-off wing, in contrast, puts at the top of its political agenda a cluster of rights related to self-expression, the environment, demilitarization, and, importantly, freedom from repressive norms — governing both sexual behavior and women's role in society — that are promoted by the conservative movement.
In the real world, global issues such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, repressive cultural norms, and even war and displacement are real problems that prevent children from being raised with their own families.
It is a brief moment of elegance and sensuality amidst a heavy Spanish Civil War era transposition of the piece, which Eyre suggests he used to "push the extremes between the world of the gypsies and the society...[the] more repressive sexual norms".
Young people in these countries and more broadly throughout the developing world are using these technologies to shape their futures by challenging repressive laws and norms.
For many modern free-speech advocates, the First Amendment is irrelevant: their main target is not repressive laws but shifting norms and values.
By contrast, truly holistic societies — those committed to the coördinated enforcement of norms — tend to be repressive.
In this case, it's not by a repressive government, it's by the norms of the commercial music business; radio programmers telling me that there are too many guitars on the songs, and things like that.
Doing so will require, as the author wisely observes, big changes in its stifling approach to education, unreliable legal system and repressive political regime, as well as adjustments to various social norms.But does aviation really serve as a litmus test for such a transformation?
"It goes against international norms and also risks creating a race to the bottom globally as repressive regimes seek to copy Britain's example".
Most are repressive and unpopular.
