Sentence examples for suppressive measures from inspiring English sources

Other states are continuing to move forward with suppressive measures.

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

The ever-subtler expressions of defiance have drawn extraordinary suppressive measures, as security forces engage in the harshest crackdown of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko's 17 years in power.

This was investors' loss caused by the government's suppressive measures, which may directly cause them to withdraw from resistance; (3) the cost of mobilizing higher authorities to intervene.

Given that the legitimacy of protest is often a challenging issue (Ying 2007), favourable policies and laws strengthen a claim's legitimacy and thus decrease the possibility that the local governments will take suppressive measures.

Suppressive measures, such as birth control or other controversial hormone therapy, can offer patients relief from their symptoms.

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.

Sometimes a suppressive measure is necessary, especially in time-limited life-threatening situations.

"We welcome anyone who stands up to these suppressive voting measures, but at the same time, we think it's important that people not view this as a partisan issue".

As soon as the Supreme Court released its ruling, states were free to move forward with suppressive voting measures, including those that had previously been barred as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.

Hasen described the bill as "probably the most suppressive voting measure passed in the United States in decades".