Sentence examples for repressive steps from inspiring English sources

"These repressive steps are gradually undermining his government's legitimacy, making any succession difficult," a South American diplomat said.

Trump could threaten that balance by demanding more repressive steps from Jordan in return for the massive annual U.S. aid package that runs Abdullah's economy.

Iraq had no organic national identity at its inception, and the repressive steps Sunni autocrats took over the years to enforce their authority left the country ripe for dissolution when America invaded in 2003.

A police car stood outside, but in those erratically repressive years the policemen rarely stepped inside.

That majority, many secularists believe, is using the veil as a first step toward a repressive Islamic state.

These laws could be a small step toward a repressive government that monitors and controls what we can and cannot do.

Regardless of how widely China's leaders have opened its markets to the outside world, they have not retreated even half a step from their repressive political creed.

Burma is to release more than 6,000 prisoners – apparently including political detainees – in a potentially important step by the repressive south-east Asian regime in opening up to the outside world.

He has said little about the raft of repressive measures introduced since he stepped down, or about Pussy Riot, which has been held up by pro-Kremlin commentators as an example of dangerous radicalism that has infected Russian society and must be stamped out.

Trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 H3-K27me33) by Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a key step for transcriptional repression by the Polycomb system.

La Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, a rights group, said the steps would "reinforce negative repressive measures".