repressive
ਦਮਨਕਾਰੀ
definition
adjective
a repressive regime
(especially of a social or political system) inhibiting or restraining the freedom of a person or group of people.
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.
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.
The US has long held out a promise of freedom to people living half-suffocated lives in 'repressive' societies.
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.
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.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a 'repressive' mercantilist economic policy regime.
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.
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’.
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?
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or 'repressive' authority.
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.
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.
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support 'repressive' regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally 'repressive' military dictatorship.
It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a 'repressive' political system.
This is evident not only in the imposition of an alien, Eurocentric 'repressive' moral code, but also in acts of violence and sexual exploitation.
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.
One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of 'repressive' , patriarchal social conditioning.
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.
What's to prevent additional development assistance from being wasted by 'repressive' , inefficient states?
It should stop propping up right-wing 'repressive' regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
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.
People are fed up with regimes that are 'repressive' and have failed to deliver prosperity.
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.
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with 'repressive' but anti-Soviet regimes.
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.
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.
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.
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