Sentence examples for risk of repression from inspiring English sources

It said that a "broad" test that an export licence should not be issued if there was "concern" the equipment could be used for internal repression had been dropped from the latest set of government guidelines issued earlier this year, and only the "narrow" test that there had to be a "clear risk" of repression remained.

I don't see how immediate withdrawal – with the risk of mass repression by the Taliban – is compatible with the leftwing values of anti-fascism, international solidarity, human rights and support for oppressed people.

Activists also say the DHS policy endangers a group of migrants especially at risk of government repression back at home.

Every day that Lively and his willing accomplices in Uganda continue to stoke the fires of anti-gay hatred increases the risk of greater repression and violence and the potential for large-scale atrocity.

The need of a support system, organised for women only, was emphasised as women at times feared their husbands but avoided seeking help from health care services or aid organisations due to the risk of subsequent repression.

When deciding whether or not to protest, individuals have to estimate the risk of arrest or violent state repression, and they have to weigh that cost against the potential benefits of any change in policy that may result.

Both Deir al-Zour and Hama represent targets of repression that carry special risks in Syria.

Almost everywhere one looks, in a sweeping arc across the region, there is bloodshed, repression or the risk of war.

Repressive, unfair laws are likely to increase the risk of terrorism as the recent bombing in Egypt, with its long history of repression of the Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrates all too clearly.

Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University believes Kim Jong-un's youth means he has little choice but to risk introducing "truly radical" economic changes, probably accompanied by more political repression to offset the risk of destabilisation.

Years of repression had depoliticised its society.