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We may worry about what obstacles they’ll run into while living in such a repressive time.
A WORTHY SEQUEL TO ‘MAURICE’ REVISITS CLASSIC LOVE STORYKATHI WOLFEAUGUST 26, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEIn Afghanistan we kicked out the Taliban because we said, not incorrectly, that they were harboring al-Qaeda who had seriously hurt our people and were also horrible and repressive.
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR ANYMOREKARL MARLANTESAUGUST 26, 2021TIMESince becoming president of Belarus in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has built Europe’s most repressive police state and ruthlessly used his power to stay in office as a dictator.
HACKERS ARE TRYING TO TOPPLE BELARUS’S DICTATOR, WITH HELP FROM THE INSIDEPATRICK HOWELL O'NEILLAUGUST 26, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWTo repressive regimes — including many in the Middle East — a failure of Tunisia’s experiment will be used to remind those seeking change that democracy isn’t the panacea they think it is.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT: DEATH OF A DEMOCRATIC DREAM?CHARU KASTURIJULY 28, 2021OZYTheir goal was to intimidate the media and prevent coverage of the civil rights movement and local officials’ repressive and often brutal responses to it.
A MAJOR SUPREME COURT FIRST AMENDMENT DECISION COULD BE AT RISKSAMANTHA BARBASJULY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHuman rights groups consider Eritrea’s government one of the most repressive in the world, and thousands attempt to flee and seek asylum every year.
THREE DAYS AFTER BECOMING A U.S. CITIZEN, SHE’LL RUN TO BECOME A U.S. OLYMPIANADAM KILGOREJUNE 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s more her association with this repressive organization that worries me and how it will impact her ability to be impartial knowing what I grew up with and the mind-set.
‘PEOPLE OF PRAISE LEADERS FAILED ME’: CHRISTIAN GROUP TIED TO JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT FACES RECKONING OVER SEXUAL MISCONDUCTBETH REINHARD, ALICE CRITESJUNE 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHongmei grew up during the Cultural Revolution, a child of the country at its most repressive.
GELING YAN’S TWISTY THRILLER ‘THE SECRET TALKER’ BEGINS WITH A CREEPY BUT ALLURING TEXTMARK ATHITAKISMAY 28, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThere’s a direct line from this sort of deliberately induced political hysteria to violent, repressive crackdowns on progressive dissent.
DOCUMENTS REVEAL COPS CHASING ABSURD ANTIFA AND BLM TIPSKELLY WEILLAPRIL 23, 2021THE DAILY BEASTIf that was the true goal of Hamzah’s detention — to silence him, and the Jordanian public in the process — then it fits an increasingly repressive pattern by Abdullah.
JORDAN’S ROYAL FAMILY FEUD AND ALLEGED COUP PLOT, EXPLAINEDALEX WARDAPRIL 9, 2021VOXWORDS RELATED TO REPRESSIVE
- alarming
- annoying
- arduous
- burdensome
- damaging
- dangerous
- demanding
- difficult
- disquieting
- harassing
- hard
- heavy
- importunate
- inconvenient
- infestive
- intractable
- irksome
- irritating
- laborious
- mean
- messy
- murder
- oppressive
- painful
- pesky
- pestiferous
- pestilential
- problematic
- refractory
- repressive
- rough
- taxing
- tiresome
- tough
- tricky
- troublous
- trying
- ugly
- ungovernable
- unruly
- uphill
- upsetting
- vexatious
- vexing
- wearisome
- wicked
- worrying
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