Use of repressive in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include repressive at the start of sentence, repressive at the end of sentence and repressive in the middle of sentence

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repressive at the end of sentence


  1. The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
  2. However, many ordinary men and women came to find this undiluted predestinarian Calvinism uncongenial and repressive.

repressive in the middle of sentence


  1. The people are held down by a repressive regime.
  2. The customs were exceedingly repressive toward women.
  3. This repressive law takes gay rights back to the dark ages.
  4. Parliament condemned the repressive measures taken by the police.
  5. He loathed the repressive State and the system which it supported.
  6. The people are held down by a vicious and repressive military regime.
  7. The country has repressive laws and jails full of political prisoners.
  8. The government's repressive policies are sowing the seeds of rebellion.
  9. This fuelled dissatisfaction with the repressive structures of tsarism.
  10. He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.
  11. A military coup was carried out, and a repressive government was placed in power.
  12. After six years in power, Park was becoming more repressive and had his sights set on long-term rule.
  13. When faced with locally repressive measures, some Huaraz women have threatened to call a marketers' strike.
  14. Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.
  15. Its rejection led to a series of industrial strikes, demonstrations, and repressive measures by the Government.
  16. Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea.
  17. A second section then analyses the corresponding drift towards a more repressive style of policing in this country.
  18. The growing numbers of the poor were reflected in begging, vagrancy and theft, all of which led to repressive reactions.
  19. He immediately began harsh repressive measures and many Madeirans were deported to the Azores and some to the Cape Verde.
  20. The guaranteed absence of external intervention left the regime a free hand to continue its repressive domestic policies.
  21. This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
  22. He became increasingly more repressive, despite his pronouncements about creating a new society, free of corruption and graft.
  23. However, when a country reverts to more repressive politics, government policies usually demobilize many of the new foot soldiers.
  24. Perhaps even more startling, given the recent repressive climate, Zverev himself could also be seen working intuitively in public.
  25. In future, all movie gays will be law-abiding citizens with healthy relationships, no repressive hang-ups, and a glitter-free wardrobe
  26. Labour implemented a more repressive policy on the ground than Likud while pretending to greater moderation in the international domain.
  27. The medical students, in entering a traditionally conservative profession, were obliged to subscribe to conventionally repressive attitudes.

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