Sentence examples for repressive order from inspiring English sources

"Parts of the judicial apparatus are fully on board with the new repressive order, at least for now," said Brown.

But he appears far more interested in maintaining as much of the old repressive order as he can get away with.

And the power of internet corporations – plus the reach and dominance of national intelligence agencies such as the NSA – suggest that some kind of (possibly repressive) order would be restored long before "cybergeddon" would be reached.

"In Pirates we're expected to root for the anarchic lawbreakers against the forces of repressive order.

There are five, one has to choose, those who don't make it in are doomed to life as perpetual outsiders, and here's the twist those who have too many qualities to fit into any one group are considered "divergent," a threat to the carefully balanced and repressive social order, and pursued as enemies of the state.

There are five, one has to choose, those who don't make it in are doomed to life as perpetual outsiders, and — here's the twist — those who have too many qualities to fit into any one group are considered "divergent," a threat to the carefully balanced and repressive social order, and pursued as enemies of the state.

Next we brought down the Taliban in Afghanistan, settling for a corrupt secular administration in place of a repressive religious order.

Tohari later said that if he had written about the killings as they were depicted in the film, the repressive New Order government would have had him shot.

Like all Gilbert & Sullivan works, "The Mikado" lies somewhere between the poles of European opera and the American musical, and lampoons the repressive, nepotistic ordering of British society.

Cuba is a closed, repressive society.

We are a generation that is riding on the tail end of a century of war and revolution that toppled civilizations, overturned repressive social orders and left us with more privilege and opportunity than any other society in history.