Use "repressive" in a sentence

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

51. But, Acne can be an expression of those traumas trying to burst out of the repressive mechanisms that your body creates to prevent you from facing these traumas until you are ready to do so

---

52. Sotillo governed Esmeralda with repressive severity till the adverse course of events upon the distant theatre of civil war forced upon him the reflection that, after all, the great silver mine was fated to become the spoil of the victors

---

53. And yet—how could he tell a woman that he was ready to curse her? He was fuming under a repressive law which he was forced to acknowledge: he was dangerously poised, and Rosamond's voice now brought the decisive vibration

---

54. So the US had to hold its nose and support Latin America’s repressive military governments

---

55. Pinochet promptly set up a brutal and repressive military regime

---

56. South Korea stayed rich but repressive until General Park was assassinated in 1979

---

57. The South Vietnamese government at the time, led by President Diem, was repressive and corrupt – not a good advertisement for Western democratic values

---

58. In comparison to the shah’s repressive regime, many Iranians found they liked what they were hearing

---

59. Ceausescu soon proved one of the most brutal and repressive of the eastern bloc’s many brutal and repressive dictators

---

60. The world watched in amazement as South Africa moved away from its repressive apartheid system towards true democracy – without provoking the bloodbath that had seemed inevitable for so long

61. This anti-American feeling developed partly because the US tended to support repressive Middle East regimes (including Saddam Hussein, until he invaded Kuwait), but mainly because US troops were stationed on the holy soil of Saudi Arabia, homeland of the Prophet Muhammad

---

62. Mrs Gandhi led a brutally repressive regime; some people say the same for Mrs Thatcher, but whatever you think of her politics, she hated feminists

---

63. Petersburg, to convict and punish the evil-doers of the commissariat,—when in all the cities dinners with speeches were given to the heroes of Sevastopol, and when to them, with arms and legs torn off, toasts were drunk, on meeting them on the bridges and on the highways; that time, when oratorical talents developed so rapidly in the nation that a certain dram-shopkeeper everywhere and upon all occasions wrote and printed and recited by rote at dinners such strong speeches, that the guardians of the peace had to take repressive measures against the dram-shopkeeper's eloquence,—when in the very English club a special room was set aside for the discussion of public matters,—when periodicals sprang up under the most diversified standards,—periodicals that evolved European principles on a European basis, but with a Russian world conception, and periodicals on an exclusively Russian basis, but with a European world conception,—when suddenly there appeared so many periodicals that all names seemed to be exhausted,—"The Messenger," and "The Word," and "The Speaker," and "The Observer," and "The Star," and "The Eagle," and many more, and, in spite of it, there appeared ever new names; that time, when the constellation of philosophic writers made its appearance to prove that science was national, and not national, and non-national, and so forth, and the constellation of artistic writers, who described a grove, and the sunrise, and a storm, and the love of a Russian maiden, and the indolence of a certain official, and the bad conduct of many officials; that time, when on all sides appeared questions (as in the year '56 they called every concourse of circumstances, of which no one could make any sense), questions of cadet corps, universities, censorship, oral judicature, finance, banking, police, emancipation, and many more:—everybody tried to discover ever new questions, everybody tried to solve them, wrote, read, spoke, made projects, wanted to mend everything, destroy, change, and all Russians, like one man, were in indescribable ecstasy

---