Sentence examples for repressive view from inspiring English sources

Sex-positive feminist critics criticized Dworkin's legal activism as censorious, and argued that her work on pornography and sexuality promoted an essentialist, conservative, or repressive view of sexuality, which they often characterized as "anti-sex" or "sex-negative".

Senator Bob Day is in the front line of attacks on 18C yet Family First, his political party, is wedded to some pretty repressive views about freedom of expression.

It's not that satire and ridicule have no role in how we view repressive regimes, but highlighting the absurdity of North Korea without simultaneously stressing the evil that underpins this is to miss 99% of the picture.

And also for tuberculosis, which in the 1900s was still viewed as repressive of an inflamed and passionate sexual appetite.

Kirgizstan, with only 4.9m people and few natural resources, relies heavily on international aid and cannot afford to be viewed as repressive.

But China's efforts to compel Hong Kong to institute a national security law that many viewed as repressive mobilized the opposition and helped the Democratic Party, the main opposition group, win far more votes than expected in district elections there last fall.

Yet Isherwood, who lived for more than 45 years near the Santa Monica beach until his death in 1986, would have certainly found it appropriate that a celebration of his work would take place in that sunny promised land he adopted, as opposed to his birthplace, England, which he viewed as repressive and cold.

Countries that make being gay a crime are widely viewed as repressive.

His loyalty to the Ottomans eroded, however, due to the impact of the new regime's Turkification policies which he viewed as repressive against his ideals.

Howard adopts a playbook that is indistinguishable from the freedom-to-connect narrative fronted by US big tech and government – the valorisation of openness, interoperability, and disruptive innovation by private companies; the demonisation of repressive regimes; and a superficial view of political economy, international relations, and institutional corruption.

These clusters are free of repressive histone marks, supporting the view that female-biased lncRNAs are biallelically expressed in domains that escape X-inactivation.