Sentence examples for used repression from inspiring English sources

Saddam Hussein, much like Tito, used repression and force to keep disparate ethnic and religious groups with long-festering enmities locked together.

Although the PRI could count on the enthusiastic support of large segments of the population, when necessary it used repression and, according to its critics, electoral fraud to solidify its position.

The clash between the press and the party of South Africa's liberation has helped fuel anxieties that the country — a regional powerhouse that plays a critical stabilizing role in Africa — could be going the way of Zimbabwe, where those who fought for majority rule morphed into a kleptocratic elite that has used repression to hang onto power.

Since there is very little overlap between the PcG and Su var) groups of proteins it appears they participate in two mechanistically distinct regulatory processes and implies that at least two widely used repression systems exist in eukaryotes.

In previous studies we used repression data from the 3′LIFE assay to identify and validate functional miRNA binding sites [ 8].

More recent studies in cell cultures, frog oocytes, as well as during metamorphosis, have shown that during vertebrate development, when T3 is absent or at low levels, TR/RXR heterodimers recruit corepressor complexes at T3 inducible genes to establish a repressive chromatin structure in part by using repression histone marks.

For honest, sophisticated people, he uses repression".

Once in power, the party would use repression against opponents.

But its genius has been to cultivate loyalty, using repression only as a last resort.

He will say that while much of the rest of Latin America has moved from dictatorship to democracy, Cuba continues to use repression and terror to control its people.

One says that the hill-tribes will always go back to opium, "unless the government uses repression to stop them".