Sentence examples for repressive place from inspiring English sources

But Taiwan was also an unpleasantly repressive place.

A Success Academy classroom is a highly controlled, even repressive, place.

Magnifica 70 – on All4 from 27 May Sao Paolo in the 1970s is a repressive place under military occupation.

Still she returns home, unsatisfied with the punk disaffection of her western lifestyle, only to feel the same dislocation in a more repressive place.

Ms. Cooper said China continued to be a highly repressive place as it had been for many years, along with Russia, several of the independent former Soviet states and the Philippines.

State-controlled television gave reasonably even-handed campaign coverage and screened slick, Hollywoodised propaganda slots produced by some of the candidates (though not the strait-laced Mr Ahmadi-Nejad).Iran today is a less stiflingly repressive place than in the early years following the Islamic Revolution.

It's downright immoral to defer to choices made by government-controlled boards in repressive places.

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes used his seemingly smooth landing in "one of the most isolated, impoverished and repressive places of earth" to introduce his first news piece.

This political capture produces one of the great offshore paradoxes: these zones of ultra-freedom are often highly repressive places, wary of scrutiny and intolerant of criticism.

My worry (and you seem to share it about for Central Asia) is that his election and his words have inspired a lot of young people in repressive places, but his actions — whether out of strategic humility or old-fashioned realism — have sometimes failed to follow through.

SYRIA The Syrian police sealed off the city of Dara'a after security forces killed at least five protesters there on Friday in the first sign that the Arab world's pro-democracy push was seeping into one of the region's most repressive places, The Associated Press said.