Sentence examples for repugnant system from inspiring English sources

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Her center started out nearly 40 years ago as a bunch of Protestant groups concerned about companies' profiting from the unpopular Vietnam War and the repugnant system of South African apartheid.

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He was an electrifying speaker, depicting impoverished Newark residents as captives of nepotistic politicians, their children trapped in a "repugnant" school system.

This repugnant scheme is what the courts are now uncovering.

The alien god to which James Harris refused to prostrate himself was the doctrine of white supremacy — the repugnant and encompassing Jim Crow system that controlled the South while Harris was growing up in Monroe, Louisiana, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.

In its first half-hour, "Stander," which tells the true story of Andre Stander Mr. Janee), the Johannesburg police chief who in 1976 turned against an apartheid system he found repugnant and became a notorious serial bank robber, plays like a smoothly executed if predictable drama of one man's heroic rebellion.

And the first half hour of "Stander," which tells the true story of Andre Stander Tom Janee), the notorious Johannesburg police captain who turned against a system he found repugnant, plays like a smoothly executed if predictable drama of one man's heroic rebellion.

"That's a system that we find repugnant," he said.

Father Francis Gsell, a French priest from Alsace, arrived on Christmas Eve 1912 with four Filipino slaves, two nuns, "eight half-caste children" and the aim of breaking the Tiwis' social system which he saw as repugnant, "absolute communism".

During the transition, he warned the incoming President that more "repugnant" actions would be necessary to shore up the financial system and restore economic growth.

Mr. Harrison, a seven-time visitor to Pyongyang, added: "North Korea is a repressive, repugnant, totalitarian state, and it certainly uses repugnant methods in its prison system and in its concentration camps".

The idea that every human brain is mechanically perfect – with cruel or annihilating impulses somehow separate from it, as if repugnant thoughts were like stagnant water running through an infallibly reliable plumbing system – is silly but somehow comforting.

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