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repression - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- dissent: Cuba's Criminal Code provides the legal basis for repression of dissent.
- protest: This previously secret transcript shows the party elites choosing against violent repression of the mass protests in Wenceslas Square.
- freedom: Those gathered sent a clear message of increasing opposition to the harsh repression of religious freedom.
- movement: The repression of the revolutionary movement of October 1934 then became a dress rehearsal for the horrors of the civil war.
- expression: They will have proven it possible to flourish through the active repression of free expression.
- population: The savage repression of local populations usually did enough to put people off of joining any local resistance force.
Converse of object
- intensify: Regrettably, India is stubbornly pursuing a military solution to Kashmir and has intensified repression, encouraged by an apparent international complacency.
- unleash: Still, the EPR's appearance has given the government an excuse to unleash tremendous repression.
- flee: But the arrival in Wales of 100s of families and individuals fleeing repression and torture is recent ' .
- condemn: Over 8000 people gathered in the heart of Amsterdam to take part a Tibetan freedom concert condemning repression in Tibet and the death penalty.
- justify: The Chinese authorities now call the separatists in the western province of Xinjiang " terrorists " to justify repression and shutting down publications.
- suffer: Only a year and a half after the violent repression suffered in Genoa, the movement has responded in the most spectacular fashion.
Adjective modifier
- transcriptional: In addition to the complexes referred to above, the MBD proteins might associate with several other complexes involved in transcriptional repression.
- brutal: This is why brutal repression may not be enough to contain the movement.
- Stalinist: Helped lead the Hungarian uprising of 1956 against Stalinist repression.
- savage: The savage repression of local populations usually did enough to put people off of joining any local resistance force.
- ferocious: Instead, the governor, Edward Eyre, responded with the most ferocious repression.
- violent: Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Noun used with modifier
- police: We assess the number of people currently or lately under police repression to be about 80.
- state: State repression was used against people who failed to conform.
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