repression
Example Sentences
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"We demand his immediate release," Machado said, alleging that his detention undermined promises to end decades of repression and one-party rule, but still asserting her determination to return to Venezuela.
From Barron's
He became frustrated by the policy of peaceful resistance to Belgrade's repression of ethnic Albanians espoused by the late Kosovo president Ibrahim Rugova.
From Barron's
Even as protests have quieted, repression continues in other forms.
From BBC
Dozens more were injured in what the state-run News Agency of Nigeria described as one of the most notorious acts of repression under British rule in Nigeria.
From BBC
The teachers’ group said that the killings and the continuing repression, together with the country’s worsening economic problems, are bound to fuel more popular unrest.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
