Sentence examples for ruthless repression from inspiring English sources

Despite the manpower and the ruthless repression, the French had to retreat.

Modi has been endorsed by India's billionaires, to whom he promises more ruthless repression of the widespread resistance to corporate land-grab.

The raids were a perfect example of how non-violent action can undermine ruling powers by dramatising the contrast between steadfast resistance and ruthless repression.

Rights of union organizers were violated around the world, the Brussels-based group said, ranging from union busting to "ruthless repression".

The Eritrean government has been linked with "ruthless repression" and systemic human rights violations, including carrying out widespread detention and forcing citizens into indefinite military service, according to the UN's first inquiry into human rights in the secretive country.

Because of his opposition to the ruthless repression of a Chinese uprising, he was sent back (1740) to Holland, where the company's directors took his part, however, and made him governor-general of the Indies.

Assad's ruthless military repression over the past five years facilitated the rise of radical opposition, including ISIS.

About the totalitarian surveillance and ruthless political repression, Caldwell said nothing.

The embargo provided Mr. Castro with a built-in excuse for his own failed economic policies and ruthless political repression.

The report will be discussed next week at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council against a background of debate on whether it is time to reward the sweeping changes initiated by Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, by ending its designation as a "country of concern," acquired during decades of ruthless military repression and abuse.

A ruthless campaign of repression has, so the MDC claims, left 65 of its supporters dead since March (Mr Tsvangirai is pictured above at the funeral of one of them).