Sentence examples for targets of repression from inspiring English sources

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.

Biochemical experiments reveal that RNA Pol III and probably transcription initiation factor TFIIIB are targets of repression by rapamycin.

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.

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.

Ordway, J.M., Williams, K. & Curran, T. Transcription repression in oncogenic transformation: common targets of epigenetic repression in cells transformed by Fos, Ras or Dnmt1.

Newly discovered targets of Myc repression include a set of microRNA genes, the repression of which contributes to tumor formation.