Sentence examples for target of repression from inspiring English sources
Human rights groups and other analysts say the Muslim organization blamed by the government, Hizb ut-Tahrir, does not have a record of violence and has been the target of repression for years.
A reluctance to admit support for Nahda to anonymous telephone pollsters would be unsurprising, since the movement was a main target of repression under Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali until he was overthrown in January.Throughout the 1990s and into the next decade, Nahda supporters risked imprisonment and torture; even their relatives were often shunned by employers.
But the festivals that celebrated the gift of sexuality and these community celebrations of eroticism became a target of repression from the new social order, which viewed women as property and rigidly proscribed their sexual behavior.
Human-rights lawyers remain targets of repression and intimidation.
Both Deir al-Zour and Hama represent targets of repression that carry special risks in Syria.
State repression has eased somewhat, but the prisons are still full of people who should not be there.Among the targets of repression are civilian activists, who are also the best hope of ending it.
He embodied hope for the millions of people in El Salvador who were forgotten and the targets of repression.
They have historically been targets of repression and discrimination, including under the Nazi regime, which historians estimate executed between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma up to half of the entire European Roma population.
Genes identified as targets of repression by ID1 include those encoding the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitory proteins p15 INK4B, p16 INK4andand p21 CIP1/WAF1 (Sikder et al. 2003).
Two of these genes, TGFβ2 and NRDG1, have negative correlations to ESR1 in the data of van't Veer and colleagues [ 11], consistent with being targets of repression by ER signaling (Table 1 and Fig. 5e,5f).
Interestingly, it has been shown that LSD1 has an increased expression in adipocytes from high-fat diet-fed mice and that adipose energy-expenditure genes are direct targets of repression by LSD1 [ 34].
