Sentence examples for repressive spirit from inspiring English sources

So it was judges who saved this country from the repressive spirit that prevails in so many others.

This would seem to imply, not very surprisingly, that although Stalin is long dead, his repressive spirit lives on in contemporary Russia.

Torres said the final project "involved integral training — so that the police would not be repressive, would have a human spirit, a spirit of permanency and belonging — but it also required a significant investment".

In "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte unleashed a full and independent female spirit on the repressive Victorian landscape.

Shattering the boundary between film narrative and life is a triumph of spirit over ego repression, externalized by the repressive Iranian state.

In the repressive Communist society, Mr. Smirnoff's impudent humorous spirit manifested itself early, and though he studied art, he was determined to become a comedian.

In the race he streaks ahead of the field, only to stop yards from the finishing line in a supreme act of defiance that demonstrates the freedom of his mind and his spirit against the bleak and repressive borstal regime.

Two of them were shot dead and a third arrested.In this section Spreading the net The spirit level ReprintsThe government's increasingly repressive security measures make it difficult to gain a clear account of the recent incidents in Xinjiang, where Turkic-speaking Uighurs once formed an overwhelming majority and now feel increasingly marginalised by Han Chinese immigrants.

Housden mostly skirts the country's repressive politics in favor of eloquent ruminations on its humanistic spirit and artistic excellence: the architectural splendor of the Royal Mosque in Isfahan; the rituals and gently tolerant outlook of the Sufis; the ruined Silk Road city of Nishapur, birthplace of the poet and scientist Omar Khayyam.

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.

In Democracy journal I argue that even though we're right to dismiss the Puritans' theocracy because it was repressive and hypocritical, we're wrong to have lost its animating spirit that would have kept markets from controlling and devouring republican government and even our bodies and ourselves.