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    repressive example sentences

    repressive


    1. I've lived in societies as repressive as the one in his bummer," Luray told her


    2. un-rightly "let it go" because that is repressive (not a good thing) but instead


    3. “I’ve never heard of such a repressive social system in all my studies,” Desa said, she had to think about this a second


    4. While it is certainly repressive, even today it is still more democratic than the Shah's dictatorship was


    5. Over 30 years later, China is still not close to being a democracy, but it is not as repressive as it once was


    6. Stalin's death means any number of Soviet leaders who are less hardline, more willing to avoid conflict, and by Communist standards, less repressive


    7. I looked for help from the minister of his church - that powerful organisation that backed the repressive government of the day


    8. Now in China, Roger saw unfolding before him a disturbing pattern, undeniable characteristic of repressive totalitarian regimes, and, naturally he shuddered at the prospects of its implication


    9. By 1776, the more repressive customs had disappeared but the


    10. (See my chapter on Marcuse’s Repressive

    11. sex and whatnot were repressive bullshit


    12. Let’s imagine that the response is repressive and castrating


    13. Instead, they woke up to the Rowlatt Act on 18 March 1919, which was very repressive


    14. What do they celebrate? Their misery? Stupidity? Always repressive religion


    15. outside the Colonies, without the repressive laws and hemmed-in borders, seemed to finally be at


    16. "The last of the Romanovs was heir to a repressive autocracy which was destined to terminate in the complete ruin of a massive empire and the extinction of a dynasty three centuries old," said Ogilvie


    17. It seemed to him that more repressive the government is, the more inhumane the culture


    18. Such a harsh, repressive government has actually perpetuated the existence of pockets of rebellion around the Earth, with rebels vowing to fight to the death rather than submit to Imperium power


    19. on behalf of repressive, elitist foreign interests, neglected the


    20. passage of time would institute the same repressive economic

    21. repressive events progressed in dominating the social


    22. same repressive ruling socialist elite, publicly announced that he


    23. labeled as inherently evil, repressive, uneducated pursuit in the


    24. Then we have all of these repressive laws being passed to steal


    25. repressive business that is going on, I tell you!”


    26. reality was truly a repressive pattern of socialization at work that


    27. my entire body back into the repressive reality that surrounded me


    28. upon intellectual organizations and the general repressive nature


    29. impending change from that of it's present repressive negative


    30. the scenes was whispering those repressive words that so rigidly

    31. never told the name of the senator backing the repressive


    32. the repressive forces of government regulation,


    33. the complete expense of repressive tyranny in it's every future form


    34. the repressive regulation was the true wrong,


    35. mutated bonds with those repressive spirits bearing


    36. all restraints of repressive regulation shall the raging flame sear;


    37. forcing it's own separation from the repressive


    38. A fire-brand priest by the name of Savonarola preached that old, tired fallacy that the end time was at hand, and he insisted that works of art and literature not in keeping with the strict, repressive long-standing dogma were of an evil nature


    39. adopted by the repressive forces


    40. Only the presence in force of British units in India and the harsh repressive measures by the British against political dissidents has kept the pot from boiling over

    41. was much more repressive and authoritarian then


    42. tion and repressive behaviour


    43. alter the existing social order and politics is fear! That’s right, fear! Now, the police, governments, repressive organizations have


    44. Fortunately, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world do not wish to live under a brutally repressive, woman-demeaning, barbaric and totalitarian program


    45. Shariah would supplant them with a repressive, transnational, theocratic government abroad and at home


    46. “I'm sure the sexually threatened populations of many repressive countries would appreciate a twenty-four seven machine that might occupy their prospective abusers indiscriminate libidos


    47. "� The "don't" is inherently repressive and negative


    48. s are a tradition that started in a time when many superheroes fought against repressive


    49. Superheroes living in countries with corrupt or repressive governments aren't expected to fol ow this rule


    50. applicators under its benign, but repressive wing













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    Synonyms for "repressive"

    inhibitory repressing repressive domineering autocratic overbearing arrogant dogmatic peremptory oppressive

    "repressive" definitions

    restrictive of action