repressive
అణచివేత
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
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.
It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a 'repressive' political system.
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.
‘All dictatorships are sexually 'repressive' and anti-life,’ he claims.
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.
This is evident not only in the imposition of an alien, Eurocentric 'repressive' moral code, but also in acts of violence and sexual exploitation.
People are fed up with regimes that are 'repressive' and have failed to deliver prosperity.
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.
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 following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or '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.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a 'repressive' mercantilist economic policy regime.
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.
The US has long held out a promise of freedom to people living half-suffocated lives in 'repressive' societies.
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with 'repressive' but anti-Soviet regimes.
It should stop propping up right-wing 'repressive' regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
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 first article was about the role of the Oedipal process in the generation of guilt and the 'repressive' denial of the memory of murder.
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.
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.
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally 'repressive' military dictatorship.
Irrepressible woman takes on 'repressive' system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
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.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, 'repressive' West.
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 Tokugawa brought peace and stability to the country, but at the costs of a 'repressive' political style.
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.
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.
One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of 'repressive' , patriarchal social conditioning.
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