repression
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Amodei’s main concern, he wrote in the letter, was the risk of authoritarian governments catching up with the U.S. in AI “to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Emphasizing compassion and kindness, the Dalai Lama’s spiritual and moral leadership exemplifies the victory of freedom and faith over autocracy and repression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
In the face of deportation fears and political repression, the Los Angeles goth scene provides Latinos an outlet for cultural pride and shameless expression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
David added: "These convictions send a clear message that transnational repression, foreign interference, unauthorised surveillance, and attempts to operate outside the law will not be tolerated on British soil."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The army refused to support Czar Nicholas, and in March he was forced to give up his throne—climaxing years of government repression, unrest, and revolutionary agitation.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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His later conviction marked a hardening of repressions against opponents of the war.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024
All over the country, people are laying flowers at memorials to Soviet repressions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
“The repressions have destroyed procedural and professional guarantees for lawyers’ activities, resulting in the effective destruction of legal defense in the country.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
"We have observed an increase in repressions everywhere. Some leaders have been stopped on the way, they were not allowed to pass," he said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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