Examples of 'repressive' in a sentence

Meaning of "repressive"

Repressive is an adjective used to describe something that involves or is related to the act of suppressing or controlling something by force
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  • Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

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Repressive policies increased the price of trafficking.
Vowing to bring down a repressive military government.
No repressive archaic laws or endless rituals of death.
It can not be met by repressive police action.
Repressive steps were initiated against political opponents.
The toughest of repressive measures had to be applied.
Repressive penal measures were again applied to minors.
Because school is a repressive tool of the state.
The repressive nature of the bourgeois state.
As one of the most repressive and secrets.
Renewed repressive measures against the opposition.
They combine preventive and repressive measures.
Of the most repressive dictators in the world.
The press was also subjected to repressive measures.
Religion is a repressive and authoritarian system and.

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The undisputed dictator of this repressive regime.
He became repressive at home and aggressive abroad.
Administrative and legal measures and repressive.
But the repressive onslaught means more.
He is a very courageous man in a most repressive society.
He heads a repressive homeland police state apparatus.
The fourth theme concerns repressive measures.
Given the repressive nature of the regime.
They do not eschew highly repressive means.
It is the repressive arm of the ruling class.
The political system is corrupt and repressive.
The armed and repressive forces are united.
Repressive gun laws are not merely ineffective.
One of the most repressive regimes in the.
Repressive atmosphere to which he has so long been exposed.
Europe strengthens repressive powers of the state.
Repressive governments have responded by aggressively filtering it.
These groups represent repressive archetypes of womanhood.
The repressive apparatus did not close down.
It was killed by the most repressive regime on earth.
More repressive conditions were then imposed.
This approach is viewed by many as too repressive.
A number of repressive security acts were repealed as well.
We consider it to be symptomatic of a hostile and repressive administration.
Repressive rule has only just begun.
The oppressive and repressive policies of apartheid.
This typically involved highly repressive laws.
There are repressive regimes around the world.
The analytic predication is such a repressive construction.
The repressive coordination was planned in three phases.
There are still many examples of repressive behaviour.
Repressive measures are not the answer.
He was highly unpopular for his repressive policies.
Due to the repressive political climate.
And tries to put an end to repressive policy.

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