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Sentence count:85+1Posted:2017-05-18Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: inhibitoryrepressingSimilar words: repressionirrepressibleoppressiveimpressiveexpressiverepressrepressedaggressivenessMeaning: [rɪ'presɪv]  adj. restrictive of action. 
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61. The months leading up to the Games, though, showed China at its clumsy, ill-tempered , and repressive worst.
62. The element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention.
63. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing.
64. The BI is the opposite of this, neither stigmatizing nor repressive.
65. No citizen of any country should be subject to a repressive global code when they send an email or post a comment to a news article.
66. Criminalization and repressive policies create a stressful environment that can hinder the ability to negotiate safer practices.
67. The radicalisation also provoked by repressive measures taken by the republican governments.
68. However, China and other repressive regimes are said to "filter" out Web sites that they consider overcritical and threatening to their policies.
69. The existing social benefits are considered to be stigmatizing and repressive.
70. Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores. Sentencedict.com
71. The first option has its logic: why let a repressive, demeaning system modernise itself slowly?
72. The junta has always shown a perverse punctiliousness in following the letter of its arbitrarily enforced repressive laws.
73. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation.
74. And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.
75. The government, led by the president, Ilham Aliyev, is often criticized as repressive, and there is virtually no free press in Baku.
76. She headed the People's Power Revolt against the repressive 20 - year rule of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
77. Beijing's Methods : To censor the Internet are becoming ever more repressive.
78. And if the citizens again feel free, the repressive government will have no reason to exist, and we can refashion a more just society.
79. Why did equalitarian experiments on the Earth generate repressive regimes?
80. The telegrams tell a different story of intimate and co-dependent relationships with unpleasant and repressive regimes in Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat.
81. But even in applying its repressive instruments it has learnt how to use them more efficiently.
82. Thailand was once an outpost of freedom in a fairly repressive region.
83. Individuals who have repressive personality trait are called repressors, and others are called non - repressors.
84. However, in the short-run, China's repressive financial system and central bank backing keep the whole show going.
85. Repressive regimes make no secret of their secretiveness and their repression.
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