Sentence examples for suppressive from inspiring English sources

Biopsies (removals of live tissue for medical examination) are known to have a such a suppressive effect on other infections.

For the Barbecue King, the rebel flag "is a real Christian symbol...It's fighting tyranny and terror and suppressive government".A couple of weeks later, a local newspaper reported that, along with "the world's best barbecue", Piggie Park restaurants ladle out political and religious tracts.

The extensive tissue injury documented in ebolavirus infection, including massive cell death and hemorrhage, has been associated with viral interference of immune cell function, particularly suppressive effects on the maturation of dendritic cells and the catastrophic loss (via apoptosis) of lymphocytes.

Mill's arguments are invoked today not only in opposition to government censorship but in opposition as well to those suppressive efforts by private organizations or interest groups that are sometimes more effective than government can be in a liberal democracy.

Four earlier pamphlets by the author concerning divorce had met with official disfavour and suppressive measures.

The Iranian theocracy decides how the Iranian people must dress, what they are allowed to read, watch or listen to by imposing suppressive measure with religion as the justifying pretext.

And he displays a continuing fascination with people at the edge - vagrants, water-diviners, astrologers, tricksters, psychotics, and all those who explore 'the underground life that the upper-crustish, militant, colonial-suppressive cast of the English intelligence excludes'.

"My patients, understandably, are very focussed on the foods they eat, wanting control, hoping they won't have to take immune-suppressive treatments," Gary Wu, the University of Pennsylvania gastroenterologist, told me.

A few weeks ago my mum was admitted to hospital with a life-threatening pneumonia, induced by an immuno-suppressive medication she was taking for her rheumatoid arthritis.

"Meddling with a fundamentally important tumour-suppressive mechanism that has evolved in long-lived species like ours doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea".

Those who resisted authority were declared "suppressives" and cast out.