Sentence examples for repressive state from inspiring English sources

But even in such a repressed and repressive state, Saudi security forces couldn't stop the terrorists.

Although PRC1-mediated transcriptional repression has long been considered a stable repressive state, increasing evidence indicates that PRC1 repression is a dynamic process [ 6, 7].

And so a remarkable thing happened in this repressive state.

This was really when North Korea transformed into a fully autocratic and repressive state.

Power flowed from the gun and a repressive state pointed weapons inward.

Illinois is routinely called the "most repressive state" by gun rights groups.

In his repressive state, opposition and free speech were not tolerated.

They accuse the police of using a strategy of fear indicative of a repressive state to quell protests.

The problem, in the view of human rights groups and foreign diplomats, is that Tunisia also remains a repressive state.

Speaking from London, his new home, Sannikov says Belarus's reputation as Europe's most repressive state is deserved.

The repressive state currently receives around 100,000 leisure visitors every year; most of them Chinese in tour groups.