repressive
દમનકારી
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'
દાબ,
નિગ્રહી,
અવરોધક,
દમનકારી
example
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally 'repressive' military dictatorship.
The US has long held out a promise of freedom to people living half-suffocated lives in 'repressive' societies.
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’.
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.
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.
Irrepressible woman takes on 'repressive' system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
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.
It should stop propping up right-wing 'repressive' regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
‘All dictatorships are sexually 'repressive' and anti-life,’ he claims.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or 'repressive' authority.
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support 'repressive' regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, 'repressive' West.
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.
People are fed up with regimes that are 'repressive' and have failed to deliver prosperity.
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?
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a 'repressive' mercantilist economic policy regime.
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.
But it's nonetheless true that right at the moment, dependence on oil is forcing the West to funnel money to 'repressive' regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere.
It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a 'repressive' political system.
What's to prevent additional development assistance from being wasted by 'repressive' , inefficient states?
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.
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.
This is evident not only in the imposition of an alien, Eurocentric 'repressive' moral code, but also in acts of violence and sexual exploitation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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