Sentence examples for repressive politics from inspiring English sources

Lukashenko has also been working to curry favour with the west, which has criticised his 16-year rule for human rights abuses and repressive politics.

Those, like this newspaper, who argued that the games would be taken as a badge of global respectability but would have next to no lasting impact on China's viciously repressive politics would be delighted to be proved wrong.

Post-revolution Iran and haunted-house horror prove to be a perfect match in this nerve-jangling thriller, which plays by the rules of the genre but conveys a palpable anger against the repressive politics of the era.

At the same time, repressive politics and economic hardship continued to drive out the old urban elite and much of the urban middle class that had risen during the oil boom of the 1970's.

Rather, the scenes -- macabre, surreal and often shocking in their brutality, alluding to repressive politics in Argentina and elsewhere -- merely depart from the spirit and select details of the script.

To the government's consternation, some Chinese have been wondering aloud whether the country's repressive politics might be at least partly to blame.In the latest reported incident, on May 12th, seven children were hacked to death at a rural kindergarten in the northern province of Shaanxi.

Hypotheses for the proneness of the continent to conflicts include the inherent contradictions of being both partly open and repressive, the political incoherencies associated with anocratic (semi-democratic) regimes, economic underdevelopment, poor managerial styles, and ethnic politics and polarization [7] [15].

It has existed there for more than 50 years; the country was not among those that emerged in the last 25 years from one-party politics or repressive military rule.

In recent years, as Russia has grown politically repressive and culturally conservative, Ulitskaya's fiction, which addresses both religion and politics, has moved in for a confrontation.

Carine, a Eurostar employee, said she had voted Hollande because the president's politics were "too repressive".

Since 2001 in particular, Syrian politics was increasingly repressive even by regional standards, while Assad's focus on IMF-backed mareformescalatedalated unemployment and inequality.