Sentence examples for system of repression from inspiring English sources

The novel shows by implication how a political system of repression can warp an individual's character.

And if they did, a countrywide system of repression allows no room for dissent.

The simple truth is that the North Korean regime, its nuclear arsenal and its system of repression are intricately linked.

Many ordinary citizens sighed with relief when the military stepped in, and looked the other way as it installed an unprecedented system of repression.

In the Soviet Union, the advocates of democracy triumphed over a coup that would have restored the old system of repression.

But it's actually borrowed from Huey P. Newton's 1973 memoir, and Cope has some of the same aims: to force a broad reassessment of society as a system of repression.

Stalin and Mao were murderous but low-tech; the Kim family added complex systems of repression.

The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the unchecked ravages of global capitalism (yes, we said it, capitalism): a system that has made a world that is dangerous and cruel to its inhabitants.

In other words, God challenges the constructs that lead to unethical systems of repression, usually in terms that are understandable to the cultural expressions, values, norms, idioms, customs and people with which and with whom the Holy Spirit interacts.

Neither Xist intron 1 deletion (Barakat et al. 2011), nor Tsix mutation (Lee and Lu 1999) is individually able to trigger X-inactivation in undifferentiated ES cells, suggesting that either both systems cooperate to silence Xist, and/or that other systems of repression act in ES cells.

It has navigated through the most disruptive period of economic turbulence without losing power: thanks in part, of course, to a ruthless system of state repression.