Sentence examples for tide of repression from inspiring English sources

An EU arms embargo against Syria comes into force today as part of a sanctions package against Damascus that fails to penalise President Bashar al-Assad personally for overseeing the rising tide of repression and violence against his opposition.

Only a handful of courageous souls have stood against this tide of repression and hatred.

White women with money will be spared the worst of this violence, but that doesn't mean we'll be spared, period; the rising tide of repression has a way of disintegrating established norms, and the abuses we ignore when they're visited on more vulnerable women will likely come back to bite us in the end.

He also wrote trenchant articles for the most outspoken newspapers and magazines of the time, in which he tried to warn against the tide of violent repression that was engulfing Argentina.

But the tides of political repression and censorship gradually withdrew, leaving more and more space for individual expression.

Years of repression had depoliticised its society.

A new wave of repression began a year later.

"There is a culture of repression here".

There was an enormous amount of repression.

Mayer favors an imaginative kind of repression.

The traditional parties of the right tended to prefer repression, or the threat of repression.