Sentence examples for repressive powers from inspiring English sources
These young women are "the vanguard of rebellion against the conservative and repressive powers that be.
Instead, the government is proposing legislation to give the police and army repressive powers, although there is no evidence that such measures could have prevented any recent attacks.
They propose … that the constitution should appoint the army [as] protector of the civil nature of the state; that is to allow an institution with wide repressive powers and a history of interfering in government to be free of any supervision by any elected body".
NMD exerts its repressive power primarily by promoting RNA degradation; however, miRNA-mediated repression usually involves both mRNA decay and translational repression.
The failure of this resistance cannot be ascribed to the repressive power of the state.
Until the insurgents are genuinely bloodied, they will keep insisting on a full restoration of their repressive power.
Julia Lakatos, a political analyst with an independent think tank here, said that Fidesz's repressive, power-consolidating image in the international media isn't quite matched by reality.
In fact, they form part of a combined strategy to oppose the political mobilisation of young people with the repressive power of the state.
We worked long and hard to challenge official secrets and repressive power structures, and to create more just institutions and inclusive communities.
(Scott) 'Circumstance' (No rating, 1 51, in Farsi) Two young women fall in love in Tehran, and their yearning for pleasure and freedom sets them at odds with family mores and, more dangerously, with the repressive power of the theocratic government.
Some factions in the elected government had revolutionary goals, with those on the far left calling for "democracy of a new type," meaning a prelude to the dictatorship of the proletariat; after five months of chaos, two of the Spanish institutions that had long exercised repressive power under the old monarchy — the military and the Church — were ready to overthrow the Republic.
