English example sentences with "repressive"

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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Every dictatorship needs a strong repressive intelligence service.
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Many of the Kabyle have emigrated from Algeria, influenced by factors such as the Algerian Civil War and cultural repression by the repressive Algerian government.
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Is sharia law repressive?
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Was Bouteflika a repressive leader?
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Bouteflika stepped up his repressive tactics.
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Morocco is a repressive country.
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Afghanistan has become a terrible repressive theocracy.
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The virus “has thrived because poverty, inequality, discrimination, the destruction of our natural environment and other human rights failures have created enormous fragilities in our societies,” Guterres said, while simultaneously providing leaders with a pretext to impose “heavy-handed security responses and repressive measures that curtail civic space and media freedom.”
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Much of the work is on the emotions and other dimensions of the human being—spiritual, physical, and intellectual—that can be inhibited by unwholesome attitudes or repressive social conventions.
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