Sentence examples for repressive tendencies from inspiring English sources
Sri Lanka, whose government has repressive tendencies, has preserved its own unofficial moratorium on executions.
Maria Carolina's repressive tendencies were traumatically intensified by the execution in 1793 of her sister Marie Antoinette, queen of France.
Some observers at the time took note of the Administration's repressive tendencies, but few supposed that the Administration was elaborately scheming to make itself appear repressive.
As his role in the protests became more prominent, he warned the Saudi authorities that if they refused to "stop bloodshed", the government's repressive tendencies risked it being overthrown.
Long-running civil wars with a variety of often changing enemies – not just regional secessionist movements but insurrectionist struggles supported by foreign powers – defined the repressive tendencies of the ruling elite and drove the militarisation of polity, economy and society.
to Vietnam, but it is beginning to look as though the actual result were to import anti-democratic principles into our own political life in the U.S., as shown by repressive tendencies by the U.S. gov't.
Opposition politicians and others identify a worrying repressive tendency in the government, with an archaic sedition law used to hound its opponents.
Would China display some of its repressive political tendencies and potentially embarrass NBC? Would a protest or incident mar the feel-good atmosphere?
So much of it, by inherent tendency – its original sin – seems paranoid, repressive, repressed, disproportionate, harmful, world-denying and anti-human.
It may partly be due to the tendency of repressive signals to be broad and less intense relative to activating signals [ 64], which can result in lower discrimination of a specific region as well as lower detectability and lower statistical power.
L1 repeats may facilitate the formation of a repressive CC due to their reported tendency of large, repetitive stretches to form stable contacts [ 78].
