repression
Example Sentences
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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.
Critics have long flagged concern about media repression in China, where authorities have arrested and prosecuted journalists, accusing them of causing trouble.
From BBC
Rostropovich exuded, in the Kennedy Center aura, the expression of an overwhelmingly triumphant celebration of the end of the Soviet repression.
From Los Angeles Times
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