Sentence examples for under the repressive from inspiring English sources

Mohammad Rasoulof's heartwrenching drama was made entirely under the repressive Iranian state's radar.

ETA was founded under the repressive Franco dictatorship, when Basque and other regional languages were banned.

Residents of those regions suffered greatly under the repressive military government of President Suharto, who relinquished power in 1998.

Village conversation, always tending to the left, was suspect -- even illegal -- under the repressive antiradical wartime laws the government instituted.

When their own empire collapsed, the Arabs spent four centuries under the repressive hand of the Ottomans.

Mr. Masur is a political activist, having more than survived under the repressive East German regime and played a pivotal role in its downfall.

Now, under the less repressive government of his successor, B.J. Habibie, they are being uncovered.

Instead, the country is hurtling towards economic disaster under the most repressive regime in the history of modern Egypt.

It is one of those parties you encounter in countries that have emerged from long dictatorships -- one in which every second member seems to have been a political prisoner under the old, repressive regime.

But continuity and stability also mean that the same government workers who served under the highly repressive junta are now responsible for breaking down the system they helped build.

These victims, among them journalists, activists, lawyers, and -- most importantly -- countless ordinary citizens, labor under the same repressive laws against freedom of expression, organization, assembly, and association as religious groups, and are at a distinct disadvantage to those who can twist "God's" message to fit their own political needs.