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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(61) On the Freudian model it is the repression and sublimation of homosexual desire that helps secure identity and social organization.
(62) The Securitate has regained its former power and keeps the minorities in the same old state of terror and repression.
(63) And even among the scrupulously neutral, there were those who spoke against the inequality and repression which inspired the fighting.
(64) From what I saw, the repression all seemed to originate externally, from parents and the rest of adult society.
(65) In some less democratic countries, state repression deters the great majority of citizens from participation.
(66) When we deny our doubts, repression takes its toll in personal integrity, faith, worship and witness. Sentencedict.com
(67) The jungle was filled with guerrilla activity and the repression by army troops searching for the subversives.
(68) The trade union federations called a general strike for 13 May to protest at government repression.
(69) The imposition of martial law will only increase violence and repression.
(70) The state consequently relied heavily upon instruments of repression and pragmatic administrative management.
(71) The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed.
(72) Harsh repression firmly put it down, outlaws taking as usual to a scattered and precarious existence in the Weald.
(73) The repression can be total in adult women, hence their frigidity.
(74) But for his weakness and vacillation, peasant unrest and working-class militancy could have been kept in check by efficient and unwavering repression.
(75) A dose of old-fashioned repression dealt with some of the bold exceptions.
(76) This was about a year before Soviet ideology began to move away from repression of religion and towards some degree of tolerance.
(77) The more unpopular he becomes, the more President Mugabe intensifies his repression. Local journalists are intimidated and foreign media expelled.
(78) As the measures of repression by the government grew, it became necessary to use the army to quell strikes and disturbances.
(79) In many cases, the work ethic is denigrated and impulse repression is replaced by an incitement to self-expression.
(80) Peter Novick dismisses the Freudian theory of repression of trauma leading to problems at a later date.
(81) There was nothing else for it. During the March 1982 elections, the repression increased again.
(82) This effect, however, appears to interact with retention interval in a way that is not necessarily consistent with repression interpretations.
(83) Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression, malnutrition and ecological crisis.
(84) Third, the use of violence and the level of repression have a direct bearing on movement outcomes.
(85) The law dominated the field, but it did not operate through the simple mechanisms of censorship and repression.
(86) Repression, Government spies and agents provocateur were the order of the day.
(87) Domination by political repression, the open domination of one class by another, is no longer necessary.
(88) Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood.
(89) Pollution control work, then, is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression.
(90) But as the repression has increased, more women have directly joined the combat forces.
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