Synonym: inhibitory, repressing. Similar words: repression, irrepressible, oppressive, impressive, expressive, repress, repressed, aggressiveness. Meaning: [rɪ'presɪv] adj. restrictive of action.
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31. Thousands had died on the battlefields, in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges.
32. Of course the ruling elites are still capable of using repressive forces.
33. The law is the repressive and negative aspect of the entire, positive, civilising activity undertaken by the state.
34. Crucially, this instability hinders regional development, incites repressive governance, and compounds the poverty on which militancy feeds.
35. The more militant and threatening the pressure from below, the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures.
36. It's quite clear that the influence of soul music in pop has become poisonous, repressive, grey and total.
37. It thereby assists the maintenance of domestic capitalist interests and elaborates its repressive apparatuses.
38. Thinking of our dead parents and brothers makes us determined to continue to fight against this repressive government.
39. In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
40. Just as thirty years before, here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women's demands.
41. He took the ratio between repressive law and restitutive law as an index of the type of solidarity of the society.
42. There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.
43. They risked their lives and signed petitions even in the most repressive states.
44. There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force.
45. The repressive measures adopted in the South after the Emancipation Proclamation were rapidly dissipated.
46. The government's response was to use the Freikorps and other repressive means to assert its authority.
47. When we live with war, under a repressive regime we can not close our eyes any more.
48. By condemning the disorderly symptoms of social conflict and neglecting its causes, the media implicitly endorse further repressive measures.
49. It is feared that this may prove the beginning of further repressive measures.
50. New moralists caricatured purity feminism as a repressive moral code based on ignorance and punitive condemnation.
51. Their story plays out amid the insane violence of a repressive political regime.
52. But economic reform is passing power from central government to the provinces, and from repressive institutions to individual enterprises.
53. The future is precarious: repressive tendencies still exist.
54. But repressive regimes are the easy cases.
55. But Taiwan was also an unpleasantly repressive place.
56. The ten countries rated most repressive were the same as last year except for two.
57. In recent years, illegally copied DVDs from China have flooded the country, enabling citizens of the world's most repressive state to see how sumptuously their southern cousins live.
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58. And yet, somewhat counterintuitively, a more democratic China could be an even more dynamic great power than a repressive China would be, in an economic sense and hence in a military sense, too.
59. Fewer repressive autocracies have been able to produce well-founded economic growth for decades in a row, though there, too, there are success stories.
60. But China, Egypt, Iran, Russia and Venezuela are cited for having stepped up repressive measures with great brazenness, according to the report.
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