Similar words: depression, suppression, expression, compression, oppression, impression, repress, aggression. Meaning: [rɪ'preʃn] n. 1. a state of forcible subjugation 2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious 3. the act of repressing; control by holding down.
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(31) They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.
(32) As black participation in the economy increased, the level of repression to enforce apartheid was stepped up.
(33) Years of repression now fuel an urgent desire for independence.
(34) Instead, the governments in the Middle East - survive to a greater or lesser degree by simple repression.
(35) The most immediate consequence was the swingeing repression carried out during the autumn and winter of 1934-5.
(36) Away from the colourful markets selling bananas, tomatoes and baskets,[www.Sentencedict.com] the peasants face a life of poverty and ferocious government repression.
(37) It represents an extreme of repression in a continent that has loosened up in recent years.
(38) Northern whites tolerated this repression and, in fact, adopted these policies when expedient.
(39) But tensions continued as victims of the repression took revenge against the cadres who had persecuted them.
(40) Now, to political and economic repression in these areas was added cultural suppression.
(41) But the old guard in the leadership sends in the tanks and introduces a new phase of vicious repression.
(42) Political repression and racial discrimination were at a high point.
(43) She had not even attracted any positive repression, nor been significant enough to affect her husband's career.
(44) There is a subtle heritage that connects the military repression of homosexuality with negligent pollution.
(45) It was against this uncertain political backdrop that the cycle of relaxation and repression in political and intellectual life began again.
(46) Strong repression of one emotion often succeeds inadvertently in suppressing the desire as well.
(47) Even so, the repression of each revolt inspired later uprisings, sowing the seeds of future resistance.
(48) The second source of error is the preoccupation with repression as the task of the agencies of the bourgeois class.
(49) The repression against members of the party, the trade union movement and other progressive organizations increased.
(50) The prison system became, by default, a major enforcer of repression.
(51) To build a national identity takes more than just a shared memory of Soviet repression and occupation.
(52) Replacing one military dictator with another is a recipe for continuing repression and instability.
(53) It's easy to romanticize this basically squalid lifestyle and the repression is bound to slow down development.
(54) The repression which followed temporarily halted the labour movement and dealt the party a heavy blow.
(55) Thus the endless cycle of reform, repression and violent response may be about to enter a new phase.
(56) Carrie freed herself from repression by both her schoolfriends and her religious fanatic of a mother.
(57) Repression is self-evidently a defensive procedure, designed to obliterate any trace of the repressed material and to safeguard against its return.
(58) History shows that the usual response to violent protest and riots was repression.
(59) Repression of these impulses may produce symptoms in the bowel region.
(60) At its worst, the life of faith is portrayed in a way that it is tantamount to spiritual repression.
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