repressive
ದುರಾಡಳಿತ
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'
ತುಳಿದಿಡುವ
example
People are fed up with regimes that are 'repressive' and have failed to deliver prosperity.
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.
It should stop propping up right-wing 'repressive' regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
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.
‘All dictatorships are sexually 'repressive' and anti-life,’ he claims.
The US has long held out a promise of freedom to people living half-suffocated lives in 'repressive' societies.
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.
Irrepressible woman takes on 'repressive' system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Tokugawa brought peace and stability to the country, but at the costs of a 'repressive' political style.
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally 'repressive' military dictatorship.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or 'repressive' authority.
One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of 'repressive' , patriarchal social conditioning.
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support 'repressive' regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
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.
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.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a 'repressive' mercantilist economic policy regime.
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.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, 'repressive' West.
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.
It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a 'repressive' political system.
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.
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.
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with 'repressive' but anti-Soviet regimes.
What's to prevent additional development assistance from being wasted by 'repressive' , inefficient states?
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