Sentence examples for repressive practice from inspiring English sources

We fought the British because the Crown carried on an abusive and repressive practice against the people.

"What's important is to put a degree of pressure on the Chinese government for its repressive practices," he said.

It's hard not to see echoes in the new regime of Mr. Mubarak's own repressive practices.

What he has endured already illustrates not just the repressive practices of Egypt's interim military rulers.

The widespread use of zero-tolerance policies in the public schools, egged on by the criminal-justice system, targets young people with degrading and repressive practices.

The severe drought was one, but so were the repressive practices of a brutal dictator and the rise of a particular strain of religious extremism.

And they exploit this false dichotomy to justify increasingly repressive practices that almost certainly increase the long-term risks of instability.

"The human rights situation in Bahrain has markedly deteriorated over recent months, with repressive practices increasingly entrenched," Amnesty International noted in a recent report on Bahrain.

They added that the police department had mainly handled low-level crimes, like assaults and traffic violations, and was not involved in the repressive practices of the previous government.

Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage within the British Empire, but a key center of colonial power; a crucial laboratory of imperial repressive practices cultivated and applied elsewhere.

Conceding "there is much to criticize about the Cuban government's repressive practices", he described Cuba's place on the list as "the result of domestic political calculations rather than factual findings".