repressive
উত্পীড়নকর
definition
adjective
a repressive regime
(especially of a social or political system) inhibiting or restraining the freedom of a person or group of people.
translation of 'repressive'
দমনাত্মক,
দমনমূলক
adjective
উত্পীড়নকর
example
They ask, rather, that we open our eyes to the realities of a racialized and 'repressive' social order whose institutions wage war against many young people.
Neil Cox presents a long-overdue discussion of the Surrealist fascination with the Marquis de Sade, which he argues was based on the theme of ‘desire frustrated by 'repressive' authority’.
The dream of creating a culturally renewed Ireland was replaced by a raft of 'repressive' cultural and social legislation that followed the most reactionary example of Catholic social doctrine.
This is evident not only in the imposition of an alien, Eurocentric 'repressive' moral code, but also in acts of violence and sexual exploitation.
An interesting phenomenon raised by more than one author is the way that gender subversion, with women striking back at 'repressive' aspects of patriarchy, can go hand in hand with genre subversion.
‘All dictatorships are sexually 'repressive' and anti-life,’ he claims.
Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of 'repressive' political correctness.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or 'repressive' authority.
In any case, when we look at women's resistance to government pressure, I think we should avoid the temptation to turn them into pure political subversives critiquing a 'repressive' government.
The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from 'repressive' regimes needs to be protected.
The first article was about the role of the Oedipal process in the generation of guilt and the 'repressive' denial of the memory of murder.
After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, 'repressive' military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of 'repressive' , patriarchal social conditioning.
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with 'repressive' but anti-Soviet regimes.
How else could one account for the astonishingly abrupt shift in the American horror film from the progressive, exploratory, often radical late '60s-'70s to the reactionary and 'repressive' '80s?
Bacic lived through the 'repressive' Pinochet regime in Chile, and through her work with the truth commissions that have been operating in that country she has come in contact with innumerable survivors of torture.
Following a visit to San Salvador in 1973 she wrote Salvador, describing the 'repressive' political regime.
Black feminists have critiqued its 'repressive' gender politics while not always recognizing that the sexual and racial politics of black nationalism are as deeply flawed as those of Eurocentric nationalism.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a 'repressive' mercantilist economic policy regime.
As the story proceeds, the stirring of these erotic impulses in the midst of a society governed by a strict, 'repressive' code of honor creates unpredictable complications.
What's to prevent additional development assistance from being wasted by 'repressive' , inefficient states?
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support 'repressive' regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
Tyrannical and 'repressive' non-colonial regimes might be supported if they could be presented as allies against Communism, but it was not always possible to go on making excuses for them.
The Tokugawa brought peace and stability to the country, but at the costs of a 'repressive' political style.
It should stop propping up right-wing 'repressive' regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
However, relative peace brought by colonialism, and 'repressive' colonial policies of recruitment and taxation encouraged people to spread out in the hinterland so as not to be found by colonial authorities.
People are fed up with regimes that are 'repressive' and have failed to deliver prosperity.
As in Wright's novel, in Chicano urban texts the nihilist renounces institutions and ideologies which are perceived to maintain a 'repressive' social and racial order.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, 'repressive' West.
Irrepressible woman takes on 'repressive' system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
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